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British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology
Paula R. Backscheider (Ed.)
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Description for British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology
Hardback. It fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded. Editor(s): Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1498.
This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme, offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers addressed, including ... Read more
This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme, offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers addressed, including ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
960
Condition
New
Number of Pages
960
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801892776
SKU
V9780801892776
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About Paula R. Backscheider (Ed.)
Paula R. Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, and editor of Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" ... Read more
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