Genius envy women shaping French poetic history, 1801-1900 / Adrianna M. Paliyenko.

Author/creator Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Descriptionx, 352 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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Subjects

Contents Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Ségalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.
Abstract "Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [261]-326) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016027630
ISBN9780271077086 (cloth : alk. paper)

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