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Romantic Women's Life Writing
This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the 'private'. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing-a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification-in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.
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A. Mary F. Robinson
Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed
to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century
Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at
home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French.
Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels. This literary
biography integrates Robinson's unorthodox life with her
development as a writer across genres. Best known for her poetry,
Robinson was also a respected biographer, history writer, travel
writer, and contributor of reviews and articles to the Times
Literary Supplement for nearly forty years. She had a romantic
friendship with the writer Vernon Lee and two happy - and celibate
- marriages. Her salons in London and Paris were attended by major
literary and artistic figures, and she counted amongst her friends
Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Gaston Paris,
Ernest Renan, and Maurice Barrès. Reflecting a decade of research
in international archives and family papers, A. Mary F.
Robinson reveals the extraordinary woman behind the popular
writer and critically acclaimed poet.
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Empowering the Feminine
Ty examines three late 18th century female authors coming from different social backgrounds but all grappling with a desire for female empowerment to show how supposed female weaknesses were portrayed as potentially active forces for social change.
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Towards an Equitable and Effective Climate Deal: An Interview with Mary Robinson
In an interview, Mary Robinson, Special Envoy on Climate Change, talked about the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, wherein they define climate justice as follows: climate justice links human rights and development to achieve a human-centered approach, safeguarding the rights of the most vulnerable, and sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitably and fairly. Robinson said that climate change disproportionately affects women because it undermines livelihoods. It undermines food security, and this impacts the large number of women who are responsible for putting food on the table and who are the farmers in developing countries. She believed that the private sector is very important, and there are progressive voices in the private sector that completely understand the need for business to give good leadership.
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'Gay Strangers': Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
This paper reflects on what it means to write decadent poetry with a Latin complexion. It begins by revisiting some of the debates surrounding the return of Latin to fin-de-siècle writing to highlight that writers like Alice Meynell and A. Mary F. Robinson (women of style-as opposed to Walter Pater's man of style) were part of these debates. It then moves onto consider the possibility of another fin-de-siècle poetic paradigm resulting from this return to Latin. It examines the idea of composition as a form of composure, and examines in this context the decadent poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson. It offers a reading of the philological poetics of her 1893 volume of poems, Retrospect, as a reflection of a poet in exile concerned with the question of how language composes feeling.
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Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Racialization
This essay proposes that Romantic studies needs to overhaul its canonical theories of language in order to contend with the rhetoric of racialization that underwrites and sustains structures of antiblackness. Scholarship often casts the apparent instability of race in the period as potentially liberatory, having derived its ideas about rhetoricity from the tradition of rhetorical deconstruction. Arguing that this tendency is both historically and theoretically misguided, the essay identifies an alternative model of rhetorical reading in the work of Hortense Spillers and develops its implications through analyzing a couplet from Mary Robinson's \"The Negro Girl\" (1800).
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The French Revolution as a romance: Mary Robinson's Hubert de Sevrac
When Mary Robinson wrote Hubert de Sevrac as Romance of the Eighteenth Century, public opinion in England had turned against the French Revolution, and freedom of speech was under attack. Given the widespread Francophobia and anti-revolutionary hysteria in England, Robinson's publication of a romance that celebrates the storming of the Bastille as an expression \"of the proudest energies which humanity is capable of evincing\" risked alienating and even outraging many of her readers.
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