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Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801-1900 / Adrianna M. Paliyenko.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2016]Description: 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271077086
  • 9780271079196
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 840.9/9287 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ149 .P35 2016
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Contents:
Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.
Summary: "Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercoeur, Melanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-326) and index.

Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.

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"Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercoeur, Melanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher.

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