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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... writing in this genre. I use poetry by women and women's poetry interchangeably; in this book I am not considering poetry written specifically for women as a category of production. Finally, the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style ...
... writing in this genre. I use poetry by women and women's poetry interchangeably; in this book I am not considering poetry written specifically for women as a category of production. Finally, the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style ...
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... written for more reasons than we can imagine . Much of it was written without high literary ambitions , and its purposes would render the use of the codes of prestige poetry ridiculous . In the first half of the century both men and ...
... written for more reasons than we can imagine . Much of it was written without high literary ambitions , and its purposes would render the use of the codes of prestige poetry ridiculous . In the first half of the century both men and ...
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... written , “ It is perhaps difficult to realize the central significance of poetry within eighteenth - century culture in relation to a developing sense of morality . " 20 Behn includes numerous social and political judgments in her ...
... written , “ It is perhaps difficult to realize the central significance of poetry within eighteenth - century culture in relation to a developing sense of morality . " 20 Behn includes numerous social and political judgments in her ...
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... written . Thus , she demonstrated the feminine accomplishment of writing occasional verse . She also recited a poem as her farewell address at Covent Garden in 1812 , this time one by her nephew Horace Twiss . As Siddons's Memoirs ...
... written . Thus , she demonstrated the feminine accomplishment of writing occasional verse . She also recited a poem as her farewell address at Covent Garden in 1812 , this time one by her nephew Horace Twiss . As Siddons's Memoirs ...
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... writing is simply human and that when they do it they are androgynous . Gender is always in complex relationships and ... written from the heights and depths of commitment , whether to a cause or to a compelling vision or to the art and ...
... writing is simply human and that when they do it they are androgynous . Gender is always in complex relationships and ... written from the heights and depths of commitment , whether to a cause or to a compelling vision or to the art and ...
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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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