Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, a
As she explores tropes of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, Dolan engages with a w
This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feelin
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persisten