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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... end of the century in poetic tastes and the acceptance of women poets. Chapter 1, the introduction, contextualizes my study, first, through a description of ways poetry was read and appreciated in the eighteenth century and, second, in ...
... end of the century in poetic tastes and the acceptance of women poets. Chapter 1, the introduction, contextualizes my study, first, through a description of ways poetry was read and appreciated in the eighteenth century and, second, in ...
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... end of the century assert a history and a powerful story of evolution. Startling expressions of humor, anger, sarcasm, elation, grief, contentment, ambition, sympathy, and playfulness abound in the poetry explored in my book, and the ...
... end of the century assert a history and a powerful story of evolution. Startling expressions of humor, anger, sarcasm, elation, grief, contentment, ambition, sympathy, and playfulness abound in the poetry explored in my book, and the ...
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... ends , " I willingly accept Cassandra's fate , / To speak the truth , although believ'd too late " ( Fullard , 21-22 ) . Masters's poem , with its irreverent , mock humility , is a dramatic contrast : " A Genius may supply the Pedant's ...
... ends , " I willingly accept Cassandra's fate , / To speak the truth , although believ'd too late " ( Fullard , 21-22 ) . Masters's poem , with its irreverent , mock humility , is a dramatic contrast : " A Genius may supply the Pedant's ...
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... ends with the comic proof : " You'll plainly see , in almost ev'ry Line , / Distinguishing Defects to prove them Mine . " 13 She dares to joke and can assume that her readers know more women poets than Killigrew could . Her attitude is ...
... ends with the comic proof : " You'll plainly see , in almost ev'ry Line , / Distinguishing Defects to prove them Mine . " 13 She dares to joke and can assume that her readers know more women poets than Killigrew could . Her attitude is ...
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... end of the seventeenth century Philips was firmly established as what men would allow women poets to be, while Behn was on her way to immortality as one of the unholy triumvirate of wits, in the company of Delarivière Manley and Eliza ...
... end of the seventeenth century Philips was firmly established as what men would allow women poets to be, while Behn was on her way to immortality as one of the unholy triumvirate of wits, in the company of Delarivière Manley and Eliza ...
Sommario
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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