Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian
. Ed(S): Armstrong, Isobel; Blain, Virginia
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Hardback. Editor(s): Armstrong, Isobel; Blain, Virginia. Num Pages: 426 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 691.
The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.
The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312215361
SKU
V9780312215361
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Armstrong, Isobel; Blain, Virginia
KATHRYN BURLINSON Lecturer in English and Drama, University of Southampton PAULA R. FELDMAN Professor of English, University of South Carolina ROBERT P. FLETCHER Assistant Professor of English, West Chester University EMMA FRANCIS Lecturer in English and Feminist Theory, University of Warwick GILL GREGORY Lecturer in Adult and Higher Education, London HELEN GROTH Lecturer, University of Melbourne KATHLEEN HICKOK Associate Professor ... Read more
Reviews for Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian
'Another important work on Victorian women writers...' - Years Work in English Studies