Lives of the sonnet, 1787-1895
Subtitle: genre, gender and criticism
By: Marianne Van Remoortel
Series: The Nineteenth century; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780754669340; 9780754696773
Subjects: English newspapers; English Sonnets; Poetics; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Romanticism; Sonnet; English poetry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Invaluable commodities: sonnets in the world; title: The secret life of the Della Cruscan sonnet: Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad; title: The sonnet parodies of Coleridge and his circle; title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets from the Portuguese and women's sonnets of the 1800s-1840s; title: The inconstancy of genre: Meredith's modern love' metaphor and maternity; title: Rossetti's house of life and Webster's mother and daughter; title: Conclusion.