Collecting women [electronic resource] : poetry and lives, 1700-1780 / Chantel M. Lavoie.
Lavoie, Chantel M., 1970-
2009
PR113 .L38 2009eb
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Title Collecting women [electronic resource] : poetry and lives, 1700-1780 / Chantel M. Lavoie.
Author Lavoie, Chantel M., 1970-
ISBN 9780838758434 (electronic book)
9780838757499
0838757499
Imprint Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (215 p.)
Call Number PR113 .L38 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 821/.009/9287
Summary This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material--poetic miscellanies and biographical collections--complemented one another in defining expectations about the woman writer. Far more than the single-authored text, it was the collection in one form or another that invested poems and their authors with authority. By attending to this fascinating cultural context, Chantel Lavoie explores how women poets were placed posthumously in the world of eighteenth-century English letters. Investigating the lives and works of four well known poets--Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch, and Elizabeth Rowe--Lavoie illuminates the way in which celebrated women were collected alongside their poetry, the effect of collocation on individual reputations, and the intersection between bibliography and biography as female poets themselves became curiosities. In so doing, Collecting Women contributes to the understanding of the intersection of cultural history, canon formation, and literary collecting in eighteenth-century England.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
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Representations
Gender in the verse garden
Piling and compiling: the works and days of Elizabeth Rowe
Poems by eminent ladies: the biographical anthology of 1755
Katherine Philips in (and as) The virgin muse
Aphra Behn and the politics of Poems by eminent ladies
Leaving the poet(ess) for dead: Anne Finch and Alexander Pope
Conclusion: uncollected.

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