Gender Roles between Change and Persistence:

Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Anne Barbauld all apply divergent approaches when it comes to discussing and expressing female subjectivity within the realm of gendered aesthetics. The varied approaches chosen by the three authors emphasise the problems which necessarily arise once we limit our understanding of Romantic poetry so as to only include the notion of vision and visionary flights. For women poets, gender does matter, and so does a much needed broadening of our current apprehension of romantic poetry. However, the reception of female poets into the canon of Romanticism remains far from being resolved and is highly dependenton a constant re-appropriation and re-evaluation if we really want to grant women poets the place they deserve in the complex history of the British Romantic Era.

Autorentext

Ever since early childhood, Patricia da Cruz has had a deep passion for the versatile and manifold world of literature. By writing her master thesis she was able to draw a connection between her lifelong passion and another heartfelt desire - granting female authors the place in the literary canon of Romantic Poetry they so desperately deserve.