Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing GenreJohns Hopkins University Press, 31 dic 2005 - 544 pagine Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study 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 canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the 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. |
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... SARAH ( 1672-1765 ) . Dixon was born in Kent , and her Poems on Several Occasions was published by subscription in Canterbury in 1740. She was encouraged to publish by her niece , Elizabeth , and Elizabeth's husband , the vicar of St ...
... Sarah Fyge Egerton , The Emulation , in Egerton , Poems on Several Occasions , 108-9 . 75. Sarah Fyge Egerton , The Liberty , ibid . , 19-21 . 76. Jeslyn Medoff concludes that Fyge's was the only response to Love Given O'er actually ...
... Sarah Fyge Egerton , To One who said I must not Love , in Egerton , Poems on Several Occasions , 42 . 47. For details of her life , see Medoff , " New Light on Sarah Fyge , " 155-75 . 48. Ibid . , 171–72 ; it appears that Manley visited ...
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Anne Finch and What Women Wrote | 28 |
Women and Poetry in the Public Eye | 80 |
Hymns Narratives and Innovations in Religious Poetry | 123 |
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