Women in Rock Women in Romanticism

<p><i>Women in Rock Women in Romanticism </i>is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art music and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu Beyoncé The Carters Hélène Cixous Missy Elliot the Indigo Girls Janet Jackson Janis Joplin (and Big Brother and the Holding Company) Natalie Merchant Joni Mitchell Janelle Monáe Alanis Morrisette Siouxsie Sioux Patti Smith St. Vincent (Annie Clark) and Alice Walker are explored through the lenses of pastoral and Afropresentism Gothic female Gothic and the literature of William Blake Beethoven Arthur Schopenhauer Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charlotte Dacre Ralph Waldo Emerson E.T.A. Hoffmann Ann Radcliffe William Shakespeare Mary Shelley her husband Percy Shelley Henry David Thoreau Horace Walpole Jane Williams Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth to explore how each sheds light on the other and how women have appropriated responded to and been inspired by the work of authors from previous centuries.<br> </p>