| Description |
1 online resource (x, 352 pages) |
| Summary |
"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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
Text in English, poetry selections in French. |
| Subject |
French poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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French poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women poets, French -- History -- 19th century.
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Genius.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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French poetry. (OCoLC)fst00934799
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French poetry -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00934826
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Genius. (OCoLC)fst00940195
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Women poets, French. (OCoLC)fst01178350
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956- Genius envy. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016] 9780271077086 (DLC) 2016027630 (OCoLC)945232121 |
| ISBN |
9780271079196 (electronic bk.) |
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0271079193 (electronic bk.) |
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9780271077086 |
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0271077085 |
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0271077093 |
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9780271077093 |
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