Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backscheider.
2005
PR555.W6 B33 2005 (Mapit)
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Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backscheider.
Author
Backscheider, Paula R.
ISBN
0801881692 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 514 p. ; 24 cm.
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PR555.W6 B33 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.5099287
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-498) and index.
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Introduction: Changing contexts ; Systems, gender, and persistent issues ; Agency and the "marked marker"
Anne Finch and what women wrote
Women and poetry in the public eye
Hymns, narratives, and innovations in religious poetry
Friendship poems
Retirement poetry
The elegy
The sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and what women wrote
- Conclusion.
Anne Finch and what women wrote
Women and poetry in the public eye
Hymns, narratives, and innovations in religious poetry
Friendship poems
Retirement poetry
The elegy
The sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and what women wrote
- Conclusion.