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