LEADER 04274nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910823036103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8018-8169-2 010 $a0-8018-9590-1 024 7 $a2027/heb09117 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007580 035 $a(EBL)3318421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337065 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258499 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337065 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287864 035 $a(PQKB)11490321 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318421 035 $a(OCoLC)547500660 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2684 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318421 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10363117 035 $a(OCoLC)923194089 035 $a(dli)HEB09117 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000151 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007580 100 $a20071001e20082005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEighteenth-century women poets and their poetry $einventing agency, inventing genre /$fPaula R. Backscheider 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBaltimore, MD ;$aLondon $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (545 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8018-8746-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- 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. 330 $aWithin 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. 606 $aEnglish poetry$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish poetry$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthorship$xSex differences$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aInvention (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthorship$xSex differences$xHistory 615 0$aInvention (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 676 $a821/.5099287 700 $aBackscheider$b Paula R$0155988 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823036103321 996 $aEighteenth-century women poets and their poetry$92315279 997 $aUNINA