Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of Delaware Press
Published:31st May '11
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Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in modernizing the epic genre. The book examines several long poems to provide perspective on women poets working with and against men in related efforts, contributing together to a Romantic movement of large-scale genre revision. Women poets challenged longstanding categorical approaches to gender and nation in the epic tradition, and they raised politically charged questions about women's importance in moments of historical crisis.
Elisa Beshero-Bondar’s Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism will change the [assumption that the Romantic period] was a thoroughly masculine genre...The book places the work of Mitford, Mary Tighe, Margaret Holford, Matilda Betham, and Margaret Compton in contact with epics by Robert Southey, Walter Scott, Byron, and others. Epics by women may emphasize women, but, Beshero-Bondar shows, female experience was in many ways central to the genre as a whole...Beshero-Bondar’s recovery of her five key women epic writers is her most influential act. These poems reveal a fascinating engagement with classical form which imagines often startling shifts in the relation of poetry to history. * The Year's Work In English Studies *
ISBN: 9781611490701
Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 25mm
Weight: 558g
258 pages