Collecting women : poetry and lives, 1700-1780 / Chantel M. Lavoie.
2009
PR113 .L38 2009 (Mapit)
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Collecting women : poetry and lives, 1700-1780 / Chantel M. Lavoie.
Author
Lavoie, Chantel M., 1970-
ISBN
9780838757499 (alk. paper)
0838757499 (alk. paper)
1611483417
9781611483413
0838757499 (alk. paper)
1611483417
9781611483413
Publication Details
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
215 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR113 .L38 2009
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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Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.