Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

James Rovira, Ph.D. teaches literature and writing at Valencia College. His books include Women in Rock/Women in Romanticism (2022); David Bowie and Romanticism (2022); Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (2019); Writing for College and Beyond (2019); Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (2018); Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (2018); and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (2010).

• IntroductionJames Rovira1. Are Women in Rock also Women in Romanticism?James Rovira2. Jane Williams, Rolling Stone: Reconstructing British Romanticism's Guitar God(dess)Rebecca Nesvet3. “Work Me, Lord”: Janis Joplin’s Kozmic BluesSasha Tamar Strelitz4. “All Romantics Meet the Same Fate Someday”: Joni Mitchell, Blue, and RomanticismChristopher R. Clason5. “There is no pure evil, nor pure good, only purity”: William Blake’s and Patti Smith’s Art as Opposition to Societal BoundariesAlicia Carpenter6. “A Woman with an Attitude”: Male and Female Gothic in Siouxsie and the BansheesDiana Edelman7. “Our Generation”: Gender, Regeneration and Women in RockLinda C. Middleton8. “Laughing with a Mouth of Blood”: St. Vincent’s Gothic GrotesqueSherry R. Truffin9. “I can’t believe we made it”: Romanticism and Afropresentism in Works of African American Female Hip Hop and R‘n’B ArtistsKirsten ZemkeIndex