{"product_id":"genius-envy-9780271077086","title":"Genius Envy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women’s voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a valuable book that will become a significant point of reference. Along with studies like Margaret Cohen’s \u003ci\u003eSentimental Education of the Novel,\u003c\/i\u003e it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the cultural context in which women were writing. . . . Paliyenko has opened up new horizons, and this book will certainly invite, provoke, and make possible further work in an important field.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe \u003ci\u003eH-France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adrianna Paliyenko brings to her work on French women’s poetry an already most impressive background, and she writes with authority and solid, yet graceful, erudition. \u003ci\u003eGenius Envy\u003c\/i\u003e will attract and inform many readers, male and female—especially at a time when nouns like \u003ci\u003eauteur(e)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eécrivain(e)\u003c\/i\u003e are asserting their presence in the language—and will undoubtedly become a long-lasting milestone in the burgeoning study of French women poets.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Norman R. Shapiro,editor and translator of \u003ci\u003eFrench Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adrianna Paliyenko’s major new assessment of poetry composed or theorized by women, \u003ci\u003eGenius Envy\u003c\/i\u003e, is long overdue in professional nineteenth-century French studies circles. Her incisive reexamination of this undervalued literary corpus and recent scholarship about it puts to rest for good the myth that female poets—contemporaries of Lamartine, Hugo, Gautier, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé—were somehow less aesthetically significant than more widely celebrated male writers.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Stamos Metzidakis,author of \u003ci\u003eDifference Unbound: The Rise of Pluralism in Literature and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The fruit of more than a decade of research, \u003ci\u003eGenius Envy\u003c\/i\u003e radically upends current thinking about women poets, their reception, and their engagement with the allegedly male-dominated world of nineteenth-century French literature. Evoking a multiplicity of female voices and touching on colonial history, social class, philosophy, science, and aesthetics, Adrianna Paliyenko’s remarkable new book is required reading for those interested in genius, the history of canon formation, and literary and social equity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Elizabeth Emery,author of \u003ci\u003ePhotojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrivacy, Publicity, and Personality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGenius Envy\u003c\/i\u003e makes a major contribution to studies of nineteenth-century French poetry. Adrianna Paliyenko’s treatment of women writers who challenge the previously male-defined notion of genius reframes much more than the study of these five writers; it cuts through stale definitions of writers as masculine or feminine and argues convincingly for a new way of considering genius, creativity, and the poetic. As a result, it raises important questions about women’s place in discourse, important today as it was then.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Seth Whidden,author of \u003ci\u003eAuthority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850–1880\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“After centuries during which genius was defined as exclusively male, Adrianna Paliyenko provides a brilliant, learned, and highly readable account of the extremes to which men went in order to deny genius to women. With equal brilliance she restores several pages excised from nineteenth-century literary history by this gendering, and she gives voice to French women poets as they challenge their exclusion. Thanks to Paliyenko’s groundbreaking book, the sexing of genius has lost its self-evidence, and the nineteenth century has gained five major poets.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ann Jefferson,author of \u003ci\u003eGenius in France: An Idea and Its Uses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Reception Matters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.     Un\/sexing Genius \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.     Literary Reception and its Discontents \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.     The Other History of French Poetry, 1801-1900\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Women Thinking Through Poetry and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.     Anais Ségalas on Race, Gender, and “la mission civilisatrice”\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.     Work, Genius, and the In-Between in Malvina Blanchecotte \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.      The Poetic Edges of Dualism in Louisa Siefert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.      Louise Ackermann’s Turn to Science\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.      Marie Krysinska on Eve, Evolution and the Property of Genius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400796315991,"sku":"9780271077086","price":79.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271077086.jpg?v=1730471598","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/genius-envy-9780271077086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}