Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy : Rebellious Daughters, 1786-1826.

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Cover; Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: reading and writing the end of the world; Romantic millenarianism and the female tradition of prophecy; Revolution, prophecy, and the social contract; Romantic prophecy and speech-act theory; Chapter 1 Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm; The Civil War and a new tradition of female prophecy; Female prophecy in the eighteenth century; Sensibility and excess: female enthusiasm on trial; The French Revolution and radical female enthusiasm.

Germaine de Staël: nationalism and female enthusiasmChapter 2 The Second Coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi; Alpha and omega; Corilla and The Florence Miscellany; Thraliana, the French Revolution, and visions of "N'Apollione"; Etymology and catastrophe: The Diversions of Purley and British Synonymy; Retrospection; Chapter 3 "I, being the representative of Liberty": Helen Maria Williams and the utopian performative; "Moral weeping," typology, and female sensibility: Williams's early poetry; Julia and the limits of prophecy; Letters Written in France and the new millennium.

"Spectacles of horror": the passion of female sensibilityChapter 4 The Passion of the Gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative; Typology and the Gothic heroine; "Holy enthusiasm filled her heart": gender and mysticism in A Sicilian Romance; The Romance of the Forest: Adeline as prophetess; "You speak like a heroine": The Mysteries of Udolpho and the dangers of romance; The Italian: the Passion of the Gothic heroine; "Look Deep to the Novel and Mark What I Say": Joanna Southcott and The Romance of the Forest; Chapter 5 Anna Barbauld as Enlightenment prophet.

"The daring flight controul": Barbauld's early poems"The writing on the wall": Barbauld as radical prophetess; "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"; Chapter 6 Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism; Prophecy and monstrosity: the tragedies of Frankenstein and Mathilda; The beginning and the end of the female prophetic tradition: Beatrice and Euthanasia; Female prophecy and the demonic: The Last Man as rhetorical Apocalypse; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre and literary authority in this period.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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