Della Cruscan poetry, women and the fashionable newspaper / / Claire Knowles

• Autore: Knowles Claire
• Pubblicazione: Melbourne, VIC : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 210 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 820.99287
• Soggetto topico: Della Cruscans (English writers); English newspapers - Sections, columns, etc - Women; Women poets, English
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Poetry and the Rise of the Fashionable Newspaper -- The Newspaper as Pleasure Garden -- Della Cruscanism and the Feminization of the Newspaper -- Chapter 2: Mary Wells, Edward Topham and the Feminization of the Late Eighteenth Century Newspaper -- Introducing Cowslip and Captain Prologue -- Topham, Wells and the World -- The World -- Poetry, Heterosexual Romance and the Feminization of the World -- The End of the World -- Chapter 3: Hannah Cowley and the Della Cruscan Star System -- Newspaper Poetry in a Pre-Della Cruscan World -- The Easy and Elegant Arley: The Culture of Chivalry and Style in the World -- Hannah Cowley and the Construction of the Della Cruscan Star System -- Chapter 4: The Oracle and the Female Poet -- The Business of Poetry: Bell and Della Cruscanism -- Promoting the Female Poet in the Oracle: The Case of Lady Manners -- Reading Female Poets in the Oracle: Laura and Cesario -- Chapter 5: Della Cruscanism in Wartime -- The Rise of the Opposition Press in Wartime -- Early Responses to Events in France -- Finding a Space for Women and Poetry in Wartime in the Oracle -- Chapter 6: Stuart's Post and the Reign of Mary Robinson -- Stuart's Post: A New Paper for Poetry -- Mary Robinson and the Fortunes of the Female Poet in the Post -- A Della Cruscan Sappho: Robert Merry's Influence on Sappho and Phaon -- Chapter 7: Charlotte Dacre, Sophia King and the Tory Post -- Nicholas Byrne and the Newly Tory Post -- The Daughters of Sappho -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. Felicia Hemans, the Della Cruscans and the Great Forgetting -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Contemporary Articles and Reviews -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper. In doing so, this study offers the first account of the feminization of the fashionable newspaper and of popular literary culture in the final years of the eighteenth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper
• ISBN: 3-031-37267-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746070403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.