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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
Paula R. Backscheider
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Paperback. Offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a fresh light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 220 x 39. Weight in Grams: 680.
This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did ... Read more
This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801887468
SKU
V9780801887468
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About Paula R. Backscheider
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, Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England, and Reflections on Biography, and editor of Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement.
Reviews for Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
Backscheider... writes with an ease and clarity that make this book fully accessible. Choice 2006 Passionate and wide-ranging study.
Helen Deutsch London Review of Books 2006 Wise and preeminently useful... A courageous book.
Ellen Moody Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by the new work of Backscheider... Besides an excellent historical and cultural ... Read more
Helen Deutsch London Review of Books 2006 Wise and preeminently useful... A courageous book.
Ellen Moody Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by the new work of Backscheider... Besides an excellent historical and cultural ... Read more