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Poetry of the New Woman

Public Concerns, Private Matters

Patricia Murphy author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:28th Jan '23

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The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities.  Although New Women resist ready classification or appraisal as a monolithic body, they tended to share many of the same beliefs and objectives aimed at improving female conditions.  While novels about the iconoclastic New Woman have garnered much interest in recent decades, poetry from the cultural and literary figure has received considerably less attention. Yet the very issues that propelled New Woman fiction are integral to the poetry of the fin de siècle. This book – the first in-depth account on the subject – enriches our knowledge of exceptionally gifted writers, including Mathilde Blind, M. E. Coleridge, Olive Custance, and Edith Nesbit. It focuses on their long-neglected British verse, analyzing its treatment of crucial matters on both the personal and public level to provide the attention the poetry so richly deserves.

“Murphy’s volume deals with an impressive range of poets and addresses an array of different forms and themes. Some of these poets are under-discussed and such detailed analysis is therefore greatly welcome, as in the case of Southern. ... The volume succeeds as a useful supplement to Hughes’s New Woman Poets: An Anthology ... .” (Sarah Parker, Women_s Writing, November 14, 2023)

ISBN: 9783031197642

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277 pages

1st ed. 2023