Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians & 18th- & 19th-century art, music, & literature by women & men. 

The music & videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters, Hélène Cixous, Missy Elliot, the Indigo Girls, Janet Jackson, Janis Joplin (& Big Brother & the Holding Company), Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Janelle Monáe, Alanis Morrisette, Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith, St. Vincent (Annie Clark), & Alice Walker are explored through the lenses of pastoral & Afropresentism, Gothic, female Gothic, & 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, & William Wordsworth to explore how each sheds light on the other, & how women have appropriated, responded to, & been inspired by the work of authors from previous centuries.