Other British Voices - Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840

Zusatztext “Timothy Whelan brings to this volume a formidable reputation as editor and interpreter of English female authors of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, having presided over the eight-volume edition of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840 … . we have cause to thank Professor Whelan for bringing to the attention of historians a wider range of primary sources, including many still in manuscript, for the religious nonconformity of this period than was previously available.” (G. M. Ditchfield, The Journal of the Historical Association, October, 2016) Informationen zum Autor Timothy Whelan is Professor in the English Department at Georgia Southern University. Klappentext This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics, religion, gender, and the Romantic sensibility. Zusammenfassung This volume discusses the lives and writings of five nonconformist women who comprised the heart of a vibrant literary circle in England between 1760 and 1840. Whelan shows these women's keen awareness and often radical viewpoints on contemporary issues connected to politics! religion! gender! and the Romantic sensibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. A Nonconformist Women's Literary Tradition 2. Mary Steele (1753-1813) and a West Country Tradition of Dissenting Women's Poetry 3. Mary Steele as the 'Rustic Maid' 4. Mary Scott (1751-1793) 5. Jane Attwater (1753-1843) 6. Elizabeth Coltman (1761-1838)

Product details

• Authors: T Whelan, T. Whelan, Timothy Whelan, Timothy D. Whelan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2015
• EAN: 9781137343604
• ISBN: 978-1-137-34360-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Poetry, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection