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From Dante to the Romantics : The Reception History of Leigh Hunt's "The Story of Rimini"
(2001)
1816 was arguably the most significant year in Leigh Hunt's career as a Romantic poet. After a two-year imprisonment, he had spent much of 1815 going back to the theatre and seeing Edmund Kean, the actor whom Hazlitt had ...
Performing Leigh Hunt’s 1840 Play "A Legend of Florence"
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
Leigh Hunt's authorship of "A legend of Florence" (1840) — a drama inspired by the rich cultural, intellectual, and political climate of Italy — reflects, as Michael Eberle-Sinatra demonstrates in the final essay of the ...
Representing Leigh Hunt’s Autobiography
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
That study attempted to elaborate the problematic of [Leigh Hunt's] position within the London literary and political scene between the years 1805 and1828, the contributions he made to British literature and journalism, ...
Gender, Authorship and Male Domination : Mary Shelley’s Limited Freedom in "Frankenstein" and "The Last Man"
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)
Ever since Ellen Moer's "Literary Women" (1976), "Frankenstein" has been recognized as a novel in which issues about authorship are intimately bound up with those of gender. The work has frequently been related to the ...
Totally Clueless : Heckerling and Queer Sexuality in Austen’s « Emma »
(Cambria Press, 2011)
This chapter offers a new reading of the sexual politics that are at play in Jane Austen's 1816 "Emma" through the exploration of film director Amy Heckerling's retelling of Austen's original story. Heckerling's 1995 film, ...