Book Summary: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities

Book Summary: Poetry Criticism assembles critical responses to the writings of the world's most renowned poets and provides supplementary biographical context and bibliographic material to guide the reader to a greater understanding of the genre and its creators. Each entry includes a set of previously published reviews, essays and other critical responses from sources that include scholarly books and journals, literary magazines, interviews, letters and diaries, carefully selected to create a representative history and cross-section of critical responses. Although poets and poetry are also covered in other titles from the Gale Literature Criticism series, Poetry Criticism offers a greater focus on understanding poetry than is possible in the broader, survey-oriented entries in those series. Clear, accessible introductory essays followed by carefully selected critical responses allow end-users to engage with a variety of scholarly views and conversations about poets and their works. Student's writing papers or class presentations, instructors preparing their syllabi, or anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the genre will find this a highly useful resource.

Carmen de Burgos est morte en 1932, laissant derrière elle une œuvre écrite considérable : des milliers d’articles publiés dans différents journaux, des essais, des romans et des centaines de novelas cortas. L’œuvre et le souvenir de cette militante pour les droits de la femme furent condamnés à l’oubli pendant la dictature franquiste. C’est à la redécouverte et à l’analyse de cette œuvre, dans ses divers aspects, qu’est consacrée cette thèse. Nous y avons cherché les constantes mais aussi les évolutions. Carmen de Burgos a, en effet, évolué dans sa conception du rôle de la femme et des droits qu’elle devait conquérir. Au départ elle centrait plutôt son combat sur l’obtention de droits juridiques et sociaux plus égalitaires. Elle revendiquait une meilleure éducation pour les filles, éducation qui permettrait de travailler dignement et d’acquérir ainsi une indépendance économique. Elle militait pour le droit au divorce. Néanmoins, très vite elle comprendra que le changement ne pourra se faire qu’à travers les urnes et prendra donc très ouvertement des positions en faveur du suffrage féminin, allant jusqu’à organiser la première manifestation de rue en faveur du vote. Les fictions qu'elle a écrites ont été en général considérées comme de la littérature militante, sans grand intérêt littéraire. C'est pourquoi, après avoir étudié en quoi les intrigues, les dénouements et la construction des personnages étaient au service de la cause défendue, nous avons cherché à évaluer la qualité littéraire, qui ne nous a pas paru négligeable, de cette œuvre. Nous avons aussi voulu déterminer si son œuvre de fiction n’était qu’un outil au service des causes qu’elle défendait ou si elle offrait de réelles qualités littéraires. / Carmen de Burgos died in 1932, leaving behind a considerable amount of written material: thousands of articles published in different newspapers, essays, novels and hundreds of “novelas cortas”. The works and the memory of this women’s rights activist were doomed to oblivion during Franco’s dictatorship. This thesis aims to rediscover and analyse these works from its various perspectives. We have been looking for the constant trends but also the evolutions. Carmen de Burgos has indeed evolved in her conception of the woman’s role and of the rights she had to acquire. In the early stages of her fight, she had been mainly focusing on the acquisition of equalitarian legal and social rights. She claimed a better education for girls; education that would allow them to work with dignity and gain economical independence. She was campaigning for the right to divorce. Nevertheless, she soon understood that change could only occur through the ballot boxes and would thus very openly stood in favour of women’s right to vote, up to the point of organising the first street demonstration in favour of women’s vote. The fictions she wrote were, in general, considered activist literature, without a great literary interest. That’s why after having studied in which ways the plots, the denouements and the construction of the characters were serving the cause of women, we tried to evaluate the literary quality of the work, which appeared to us to have some significance. We also wanted to determine if her fiction work was just a tool serving the causes she was defending or if it offered some really good quality literature.