Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre

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Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre

Paula R. Backscheider

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-498) and index

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This large-scale project aims to present a broad, original perspective on the writing and lives of eighteenth century (British) women poets. More specifically, it seeks to do so by giving close attention to the intersections of agency-as evident in the distinct ways in which women made use of poetry in their lives-and genre. Like some other recent scholars, Paula Backscheider here construes the latter term to include categories based on popular contemporary ideas of poems and their purposes, defined sometimes more by form and sometimes more by subject matter. She focuses in particular on the commonalities and differences, both of which she often finds revealing, between the functions of individual genres for men and for women. The roughly forty poets she considers are meant to constitute a diverse but not systematic or exhaustively comprehensive selection.

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations Plan of the Book Approaching the Poetry The Chapters 1. Introduction Changing Contexts Systems, Gender, and Persistent Issues Agency and the ''Marked Marker'' 2. Anne Finch and What Women Wrote The Social and the Formal Anne Finch and Popular Poetry Poetry on Poetry The Spleen as Legacy 3. Women and Poetry in the Public Eye Poetry as News and Critique The Woman Question Elizabeth Singer Rowe 4. Hymns, Narratives, and Innovations in Religious Poetry The Voice of Paraphrase The Hymn as Personal Lyric Religious Poetry as Subversive Narrative Devout Soliloquies 5. Friendship Poems The Legacy of Katherine Philips Encouragement and the Counteruniverse Jane Brereton Adaptation and Ideology 6. Retirement Poetry Beyond Convention Memory, Time, and Elizabeth Carter Reflection and Difference 7. The Elegy What Did Women Write? Representative Composers: Darwall and Seward The Elegy and Same-Sex Desire Entertainment and Forgetting 8. The Sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and What Women Wrote The Sonnet and the Political Sonnet Sequences Women Poets and the Spread of the Sonnet The Emigrants, Conversations, and Beachy Head Smith as Transitional Poet 9. Conclusion Biographies of the Poets Notes Bibliography Index

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