04511nam 2200793Ia 450 991096884270332120251117083237.097808018816950801881692978080189590608018959012027/heb09117(CKB)2520000000007580(EBL)3318421(SSID)ssj0000337065(PQKBManifestationID)11258499(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337065(PQKBWorkID)10287864(PQKB)11490321(MiAaPQ)EBC3318421(OCoLC)547500660(MdBmJHUP)muse2684(Au-PeEL)EBL3318421(CaPaEBR)ebr10363117(OCoLC)923194089(dli)HEB09117(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000151(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000151(MiAaPQ)EBC30378532(Au-PeEL)EBL30378532(OCoLC)1156932174(EXLCZ)99252000000000758020071001e20082005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEighteenth-century women poets and their poetry inventing agency, inventing genre /Paula R. Backscheider1st ed.Baltimore, MD ;London Johns Hopkins University Press20081 online resource (545 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780801887468 0801887461 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish poetryWomen authorsHistory and criticismAuthorshipSex differencesHistory18th centuryInvention (Rhetoric)History18th centuryLiterary formHistory18th centuryEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryEnglish poetryWomen authorsHistory and criticism.AuthorshipSex differencesHistoryInvention (Rhetoric)HistoryLiterary formHistory821/.5099287Backscheider Paula R155988MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968842703321Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry2315279UNINA