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Record Nr.

UNINA9910403770503321

Autore

Roberts Bethan

Titolo

Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century / / Bethan Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool University Press

ISBN

9781789624342

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 182 pages)

Collana

Romantic reconfigurations. Studies in literature and culture 1780-1850

Disciplina

821/.6

Soggetti

Sonnets, English

Elegiac poetry, English

Sonnets, English - History and criticism

Elegiac poetry, English - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Book based on the author's PhD thesis from the University of LIverpool.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The eighteenth-century sonnet -- Tradition -- Innovation -- Wider prospect -- Botany to Beachy Head.

Sommario/riassunto

"Exploring Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, author Bethan Roberts clarifies their 'place', understood in multiple ways, in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England"--