Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900

by I. Armstrong (Editor), V. Blain (Editor)

Overview

The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312215361
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/11/1998
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Isobel Armstrong is Professor of English at Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Virginia Blain is Associate Professor of English at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
• Introduction--Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain
• The Sensuous Eighteenth Century: Minds and Bodies
• Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets--Margaret Ann Doody
• All Passion Extinguish'd: The Case of Mary Chandler (1687-1745)--David Shuttleton
• "A Dialogue:" Elizabeth Carter's Passion for the Female Mind--Lisa A. Freeman
• The Feminist Political Project
• Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and "Old Satirical Codes"--Isobel Grundy
• The Female Poet and the Poetess: Two Traditions of British Women's Poetry 1780-1830--Anne K. Mellor
• The Politics of Vision: Anna Barbauld's "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"--Maggie Favretti
• Protest and Patronage
• This Muse-Born wonder:" The Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton--Mary Waldron
• The Maid and the Minister's Wide: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York--Roger Sales
• Remaking Genres and Subjectivities
• Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self--Stuart Curran
• Homosocial Women: Martha Sansom, Constantia Grierson, Mary Leapor and Georgic Verse Epistle--Kate Lilley
• Charlotte Smith's Elegaic Sonnets : Losses and Gains--Judith Hawley Finale: A Female Canon?
• Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology--Elizabeth Eger
• Index

Editorial Reviews

Another important work on Victorian women writers... Years Work in English Studies

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