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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... early women's poetry, has often been trivialized. Allegedly about trivial subjects and having a tendency to lower rather than raise emotion, it has earned its neglect, its critics would say. For example, the death of a child is expected ...
... early women's poetry, has often been trivialized. Allegedly about trivial subjects and having a tendency to lower rather than raise emotion, it has earned its neglect, its critics would say. For example, the death of a child is expected ...
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... early women's texts have been much too narrowly contextualized, and she blames the “balkanized,” heavily gendered scholarship of the present day. She writes that they are “studied chiefly in relation to other women's texts, or to modern ...
... early women's texts have been much too narrowly contextualized, and she blames the “balkanized,” heavily gendered scholarship of the present day. She writes that they are “studied chiefly in relation to other women's texts, or to modern ...
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... early as the 1740s and deserve to have reintroduced into literary history their part in shaping them. Classical ... earliest themes and subjects, they found it an ideal form for considerations of the inseparability of the private and ...
... early as the 1740s and deserve to have reintroduced into literary history their part in shaping them. Classical ... earliest themes and subjects, they found it an ideal form for considerations of the inseparability of the private and ...
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... early as 1712, in Bernard Lintott's important Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, John Gay wrote of translations, “And Homer's Godlike Muse be made our own.” Poets throughout the century continued to assert the importance of the ...
... early as 1712, in Bernard Lintott's important Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, John Gay wrote of translations, “And Homer's Godlike Muse be made our own.” Poets throughout the century continued to assert the importance of the ...
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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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