Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry
Subtitle: inventing agency, inventing genre
By: Paula R. Backscheider.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century; Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century; Literary form -- History -- 18th century
Description: "This major original study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of important poetic genres and traditions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.