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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456570603321

Autore

Backscheider Paula R

Titolo

Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry [[electronic resource] ] : inventing agency, inventing genre / / Paula R. Backscheider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, MD ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8018-8169-2

0-8018-9590-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Disciplina

821/.5099287

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Plan of the Book""; ""Approaching the Poetry""; ""The Chapters""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Changing Contexts""; ""Systems, Gender, and Persistent Issues""; ""Agency and the ��Marked Marker��""; ""2 Anne Finch and What Women Wrote""; ""The Social and the Formal""; ""Anne Finch and Popular Poetry""; ""Poetry on Poetry""; ""The Spleen as Legacy""; ""3 Women and Poetry in the Public Eye""; ""Poetry as News and Critique""; ""The Woman Question""; ""Elizabeth Singer Rowe""; ""4 Hymns, Narratives, and Innovations in Religious Poetry""

""The Voice of Paraphrase""""The Hymn as Personal Lyric""; ""Religious Poetry as Subversive Narrative""; ""Devout Soliloquies""; ""5 Friendship Poems""; ""The Legacy of Katherine Philips""; ""Encouragement and the Counteruniverse""; ""Jane Brereton""; ""Adaptation and Ideology""; ""6 Retirement Poetry""; ""Beyond Convention""; ""Memory, Time, and Elizabeth Carter""; ""Reflection and Difference""; ""7 The Elegy""; ""What Did Women Write?""; ""Representative Composers: Darwall and



Seward""; ""The Elegy and Same-Sex Desire""; ""Entertainment and Forgetting""

""8 The Sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and What Women Wrote""""The Sonnet and the Political""; ""Sonnet Sequences""; ""Women Poets and the Spread of the Sonnet""; ""The Emigrants, Conversations, and Beachy Head""; ""Smith as Transitional Poet""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""Biographies of the Poets""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""