Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing GenreJHU Press, 31 dic 2005 - 747 pagine “Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature). This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women’s poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important verse forms, she sheds light on such topics as women’s use of religious poetry to express ideas about patriarchy and rape; the important role of friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet. Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association |
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... critics . In all cases , I followed my principle of selecting the more neglected forms and concentrating on what has been previously overlooked , on women's participation in poetic movements , and on distinctly gendered practices and ...
... critics . In all cases , I followed my principle of selecting the more neglected forms and concentrating on what has been previously overlooked , on women's participation in poetic movements , and on distinctly gendered practices and ...
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... critics, including myself, working with other genres, that is, what the historical, social, personal, 36 and ethical implications of excluding women from serious study and the canon are. Although I believe that there are serious ...
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... critics that I have accepted. His is also a challenge to these long-dead women writers. I offer the renewal of understanding, but whether the poetry can live again in our critical sensibilities will be resolved by readers. The great ...
... critics that I have accepted. His is also a challenge to these long-dead women writers. I offer the renewal of understanding, but whether the poetry can live again in our critical sensibilities will be resolved by readers. The great ...
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... Critics deplore the rage for Pindarics and later for Shen - stone that seduced poets and “ ruined " their promise , but at the height of each imitative craze people believed important and beautiful elements were being added to British ...
... Critics deplore the rage for Pindarics and later for Shen - stone that seduced poets and “ ruined " their promise , but at the height of each imitative craze people believed important and beautiful elements were being added to British ...
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Women and Poetry in the Public | |
Hymns Narratives and Innovations in Religious Poetry | |
Friendship Poems | |
Retirement Poetry | |
The Elegy | |
The Sonnet Charlotte Smith and What Women Wrote | |
Conclusion | |
Biographies of the Poets | |
Index | |
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