Title: Victorian women poets : Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti /
Authors: Bristow, Joseph
Publisher: Macmillan Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Brontë, Emily, Poetic works.; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Criticism and interpretation.; Rossetti, Christina Georgina, Criticism and interpretation.; English poetry History and criticism; English poetry Women authors History and criticism; Women and literature Great Britain History
Abstract: This New Casebook includes some of the most incisive and searching critical explorations of poetry by Victorian women. Based on theoretical methods drawn from forms of feminist and historicist inquiry, it reveals how and why the powerful and often popular works of writers such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti have been subject to radical rereading and revaluation since the late 1970s. Furnished with a detailed introduction about women and poetic identity between 1830 and 1890, the volume includes an extensive bibliography suggesting further reading in what is a rapidly expanding field of criticism.
Contents: Introduction / Joseph Bristow -- 1. 'A Music of Thine Own': Women's Poetry / Isobel Armstrong -- 2. The Damsel, the Knight, and the Victorian Woman Poet / Dorothy Mermin -- 3. Emily Bronte / Margaret Homans -- 4. 'Art's A Service': Social Wound, Sexual Politics, and Aurora Leigh / Deirdre David -- 5. From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento / Sandra M. Gilbert -- 6. The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti / Jerome J. McGann -- 7. Consumer Power and the Utopia of Desire: Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' / Elizabeth K. Helsinger -- 8. 'Because men made the laws': The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet / Angela Leighton.