Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment
The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820
Isobel Armstrong editor Virginia Blain editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:1st Jan '99
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This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.
'...in Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment the variety of subject and approach are a strength. The essays...add much to our understanding of the distinctive nature of women's writing.' - Lisa Vargo, Romanticism
'A stimulating collection of essays.' - British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review
ISBN: 9781349270262
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 318g
226 pages
1st ed. 1999