Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900
by
Adrianna M. Paliyenko
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.”...