Victorian women poets
By: edited by Alison Chapman for the English Association.
Contributors: Chapman, Alison, 1970-; English Association.
Series: Essays and studies 2003 -- v. 56; Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) -- v. 56.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.