Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era
Elizabeth A. Dolan
Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era
Elizabeth A. Dolan
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Omschrijving
Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, this book shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering.
'Elizabeth Dolan significantly modifies and deepens our understanding of the Romantic period, as she connects apparently disparate critical trajectories: medical understandings of the physiology of the eye, aesthetic and scientific modalities of seeing, and the discourse of suffering underlying social movements. Women writers, she argues, use this new knowledge to express their own subjectivity in innovative ways. Dolan reads Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley across genres and as they explode gendered constraints to visualize the suffering of neglected Others in radical and unavoidable ways.' Gina Luria Walker, New School University, USA ’... Recommended.’ Choice '... wide-ranging, interesting...' Keats-Shelley Journal
Elizabeth A. Dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.
'Elizabeth Dolan significantly modifies and deepens our understanding of the Romantic period, as she connects apparently disparate critical trajectories: medical understandings of the physiology of the eye, aesthetic and scientific modalities of seeing, and the discourse of suffering underlying social movements. Women writers, she argues, use this new knowledge to express their own subjectivity in innovative ways. Dolan reads Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley across genres and as they explode gendered constraints to visualize the suffering of neglected Others in radical and unavoidable ways.' Gina Luria Walker, New School University, USA ’... Recommended.’ Choice '... wide-ranging, interesting...' Keats-Shelley Journal
Elizabeth A. Dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.