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Autore: |
Backscheider Paula R. <1943->
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Titolo: |
Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry [[electronic resource] ] : inventing agency, inventing genre / / Paula R. Backscheider
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Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, MD ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (545 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821/.5099287 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8018-8169-2 |
0-8018-9590-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780854803321 |
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