Titlebook: Women in Romanticism; Mary Wollstonecraft, Meena Alexander Textbook 1989Latest edition Meena Alexander 1989 fragment.Romanticism.William Wo

Cultivate

Revising the Feminine,ersions onwards, Mary Shelley read them across a gulf of time. The first Romantics were still alive, but that way of life, those revolutionary aspirations had vanished. As late as her novel . (1826), Wordsworth’s Lucy provided Mary Shelley with a way of reading, and revising, the Romantic vision of femininity.

lacrimal-gland

Insufficient

不妥協

空氣傳播

True Appearances,nity of instructing you… ’ Writing might overcome the distance that cuts the mother from her daughter, permitting the expression of truth garnered from a painful life. ‘For my sake, warned by my example,’ writes Maria, ‘always appear what you are, and you will not pass through existence without enjo

concentrate

exquisite

Natural Enclosures,anied by her brother and Coleridge. Virgina Woolf notes in an essay on Dorothy the sharp divergence between what these ‘two highly incongruous travellers’ saw. Wollstonecraft, who ‘dashed her head against wall after wall’ in torment, struggling to decipher her imperishable part, ‘this I so much aliv

遠足

Unnatural Creation,ut of sheer desire, to a fierce and implacable scrutiny. Obsessed by the quest for ‘immortality and power’, Victor Frankenstein turns to the charnel house, fitting together bits and pieces of dead bodies, struggling to create new life. Through his assiduous labour he uncovers the ‘cause of generatio

割公牛膨脹

Revising the Feminine, published much later in 1807) have long been the subject of critical interest. Each evokes a feminine figure. Whether adult or child, named or nameless, she is bound to the natural landscape. She crystallises loss, intense longing. She is the impossible object of the poet’s desire, an iconic repres

窒息