General - female romanticism

Behrendt - women and poetical erasure

2009 - women “often linked the erasure of their poetical works and their poetic selves with their own physical dissolution.”

WInckles and Rehbein = address poems and poetic community

2017 - “romantic sociability” - authorial self comes into being in conversation with other poets and texts

Anne Mellor ‘Romanticism and Gender’ 1993 - What is her understanding of feminine romanticism

romanticism as gender-based/divided - women romantic poetics focussing on workings of rational mind and capacity of female body to house a rational mind. drawn towards shorter poetic compositions = memorability. memory and legacy important consideration for female romantic poets.

How was female writing often published

subscription, publicised through circulating libraries and manuscript circulation among smaller communities - collective editing and remediation of text. women excluded from formal educational structures so these literary and philosophical communities v important for female intellectual culture.

citational network established through Mary Tighe for writers to call attention to her significance and establish their own histories of influece and reception.