Victorian women poets / edited by Alison Chapman for the English Association.

Victorian women poets / edited by Alison Chapman for the English Association.

9780859917872
0859917878

Cambridge [England] ; New York : D.S. Brewer, 2003.

English

vi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

PR115 .V53 2003

821.8099287

The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers. The volume both engages critically with the political and aesthetic agenda behind the project of recovery, and also presents a pioneering approach to reading poets who have slipped out of the canon. The work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti is re-assessed and given surprising and innovative literary, political and intellectual contexts that will change the way we interpret their poetry. Writers of emerging significance, such as Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field and Margaret Veley, are given prominence in groundbreaking analysis that situates their writing within the wider debates of the period. The themes interwoven throughout the essays--literary history and canonicity, political poetics, nationhood, print culture, and genre--provide a radically new understanding of Victorian women's poetry that maps an agenda for future research.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; v. 56.

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