Victorian women poets /
Chapman, Alison,1970-
English Association.
Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,
2003.
The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers. The volume both engages critically with the political and aesthetic agenda behind the project of recovery, and also presents a pioneering approach to reading poets who have slipped out of the canon. The work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti is re-assessed and given surprising and innovative literary, political and intellectual contexts that will change the way we interpret their poetry. Writers of emerging significance, such as Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field and Margaret Veley, are given prominence in groundbreaking analysis that situates their writing within the wider debates of the period. The themes interwoven throughout the essays--literary history and canonicity, political poetics, nationhood, print culture, and genre--provide a radically new understanding of Victorian women's poetry that maps an agenda for future research.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Jewels, delights, perfect loves': Victorian women poets and the Annuals -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Garrisonians: 'The runaway slave at Pilgrim's Point', the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and abolitionist discourse in the Liberty bell -- The Expatriate poetess: nationhood, poetics and politics -- Rethinking the dramatic monologue: Victorian women poets and social critique -- Christina Rossetti's Petrarca -- 'A still and mute-born vision': locating Mathilde Blind's reproductive poetics -- Towards a new history: fin-de-siècle women poets and the sonnet -- Reassessing Margaret Veley's poetry: the value of Harper's transatlantic spirit.
The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers. The volume both engages critically with the political and aesthetic agenda behind the project of recovery, and also presents a pioneering approach to reading poets who have slipped out of the canon. The work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti is re-assessed and given surprising and innovative literary, political and intellectual contexts that will change the way we interpret their poetry. Writers of emerging significance, such as Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field and Margaret Veley, are given prominence in groundbreaking analysis that situates their writing within the wider debates of the period. The themes interwoven throughout the essays--literary history and canonicity, political poetics, nationhood, print culture, and genre--provide a radically new understanding of Victorian women's poetry that maps an agenda for future research.
English poetry
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