Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 /

"Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercoeur, Melanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Place...

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Main Author: Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Un/sexing genius
  • Literary reception and its discontents
  • The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900
  • Anaïs Segalas 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.