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Collecting Women
Chantel M. Lavoie
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Description for Collecting Women
Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material—poetic miscellanies and biographical collections—complemented one another in defining expectations about the woman writer. Far more than the single-authored text, it was the collection in one form or another that invested poems and their authors with authority. By attending to this fascinating cultural context, Chantel Lavoie explores how women poets were placed posthumously in the world of eighteenth-century English letters. Investigating the lives and works of four well-known poets—Katherine Philips, ... Read more
This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material—poetic miscellanies and biographical collections—complemented one another in defining expectations about the woman writer. Far more than the single-authored text, it was the collection in one form or another that invested poems and their authors with authority. By attending to this fascinating cultural context, Chantel Lavoie explores how women poets were placed posthumously in the world of eighteenth-century English letters. Investigating the lives and works of four well-known poets—Katherine Philips, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
215
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483413
SKU
V9781611483413
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About Chantel M. Lavoie
Chantel M. Lavoie lectures on eighteenth-century literature at the University of Toronto. Her interest in women writers of the eighteenth century began with an exploration of Jonathan Swift’s literary female friends in Dublin, and from there developed into a fascination with the role early miscellanies played in literary reputations. She has published on early women writers, poetic collections, Canadian verse, ... Read more
Reviews for Collecting Women
Collecting Women is a remarkable book. It is a scrupulous, scholarly study of a highly important area of literature, with both theoretical and historical reach and importance.
Barbara M. Benedict, Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature, Trinity College
Barbara M. Benedict, Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature, Trinity College