| Summary: | Studies about Romanticism have often neglected pamphletary literature, seen as « too circumstantial » or « too engaged » to fit the concept of such a sentimental period. On the other hand, Feminine Studies are all about the demands of the sentimental gender. But perhaps we could find on pamphleteers the best example of the complexity of Romanticism and Feminine Literature: new publics’ vitality, lyrical and epic poetry’s hybridism, and also new rhetorical strategies of women’s literature. This thesis can be best viewed through the example of Catarina de Lencastre’s poetry, during the War of the Oranges and the French Invasions. Forgotten by Literary History, Catarina de Lencastre is, after all, another good pretext to review the Literary History’s canon. |
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