Women's poetry in the Enlightenment : the making of a canon, 1730-1820
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Women's poetry in the Enlightenment : the making of a canon, 1730-1820
Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"In association with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.
Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors Introduction
- I.Armstrong & V.Blain PART ONE: THE SENSUOUS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: MINDS AND BODIES Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
- M.A.Doody All Passion Extinguish'd: The Case of Mary Chandler (1687-1745)
- D.Shuttleton 'A Dialogue': Elizabeth Carter's Passion for the Female Mind
- L.A.Freeman PART TWO: THE FEMINIST POLITICAL PROJECT Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and 'Old Satirical Codes'
- I.Grundy The Female Poet and the Poetess: Two Traditions of British Women's Poetry 1780-1830
- A.K.Mellor The Politics of Vision: Anna Barbauld's 'Eighteen Hundred and Eleven'
- M.Favretti PART THREE: PROTEST AND PATRONAGE 'This Muse-born Wonder': the Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton
- M.Waldron The Maid and the Minister's Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York
- R.Sales PART FOUR: REMAKING GENRES AND SUBJECTIVITIES Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self
- S.Curran Homosocial Women: Martha Sansom, Constantia Grierson, Mary Leapor and Georgic Verse Epistle
- K.Lilley Charlotte Smith's Elegaic Sonnets : Losses and Gains
- J.Hawley PART FIVE: FINALE - A FEMALE CANON? Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology
- E.Eger Index
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