Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing GenreJohns Hopkins University Press, 2005 M12 31 - 544 páginas Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association 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 but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet. |
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... Chudleigh and Elizabeth Thomas were friends , and several , in- cluding Sarah Fyge ( Egerton ) , Elizabeth Singer ( Rowe ) , and Chudleigh , be- longed to circles of literary women ; Rowe and Anne Finch knew each other , and Rowe read ...
... Chudleigh's Song of Three Children Paraphras'd , a Pindaric based on the Song of the Three Holy Children , recites major episodes in the Old Testament , describes the Crucifixion and the Resurrection , and paraphrases the hymn that ...
... Chudleigh may be known today , if she is known at all , for one protest poem , To the Ladies , with its ... Chudleigh's poetry , singles out as her major achievement contributions to the strain of women's poetry that seeks a retreat that ...
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Anne Finch and What Women Wrote | 28 |
Women and Poetry in the Public Eye | 80 |
Hymns Narratives and Innovations in Religious Poetry | 123 |
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