Shakespeare's sisters : feminist essays on women poets

Author(s)

• Gilbert, Sandra M.
• Gubar, Susan

Bibliographic Information

Shakespeare's sisters : feminist essays on women poets

edited, with an introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

（Midland books, MB 263）

Indiana University Press, c1979

• : [pbk.]

Note

Bibliography: p. 301-314

Description and Table of Contents

Description

" . . . the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available." -Spokeswoman Review "[The essays] form a satisfying whole, stunningly enlightening, important for literature and women's studies. . . . " -Library Journal The essays in this landmark volume highlight the achievements of "Shakespeare's sisters," including Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Introduction: Gender, Creativity, and the Woman Poet I. "A Lonesome Glee"-Poets before 1800 1. Catherine F. Smith, Jane Lead: Mysticism and the Woman Cloathed with the Sun 2. Wendy Martin, Anne Bradstreet's Poetry: A Study of Subversive Piety 3. Katharine Rogers, Anne Finch, Countess of Winshilsea: An Augustan Woman Poet II. "Titanic Opera"-Nineteenth-Century Poets 4. Nina Auerbach, This Changeful Life: Emily Bronte's Anti-Romance 5. Helen Cooper, Working into Light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 6. Dolores Rosenblum, Christina Rossetti: The Inward Pose 7. Adrienne Rich, Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson 8. Albert Gelpi, Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The Dilemma of the Woman Poet in America 9. Terence Diggory, Armored Women, Naked Men: Dickinson, Whitman and Their Successors III. "The Silver Reticence"-Modernists 10. Jeanne Kammer, The Art of Silence and the Forms of Women's Poetry 11. Gloria T. Hull, Afro-American Women Poets: A Bio-Critical Survey 12. Jane Stanbrough, Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Language of Vulnerability 13. Susan Gubar, The Echoing Spell of H.D.'s Trilogy IV. "The Difference-Made Me Bold"-Contemporary Poets 14. Alicia Ostriker, May Swenson and the Shapes of Speculation 15. Hortense J. Spillers, Gwendolyn the Terrible: Propositions on Eleven Poems 16. Sandra M. Gilbert, A Fine, White Flying Myth: The Life/Work of Sylvia Plath 17. Suzanne Juhasz, Seeking the Exit of the Home: Poetry and Salvation in the Career of Anne Sexton 18. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, A Common Language: The American Woman Poet 19. Rachel Blau Duplessis, The Critique of Consciousness and Myth in Levertov, Rich, and Rukeyser Selected Bibliography Notes About the Authors

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Details

• NCID: BB10227659
• ISBN:
  • 0253202639
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: xxvi, 337 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS310.W64
  • DC : 821/.009
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Feminist poetry, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Feminist literary criticism
  • LCSH : Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- English-speaking countries
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00376225