Women Poets in the Victorian Era - Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Fabienne Moine is Senior Lecturer in English at University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense! France. Zusammenfassung Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry! Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time! she challenges essentialist discourses that assume innate affinities between women and the natural world. Rather! Moine shows! Victorian women poets mobilised these alliances to defend common interests and express their engagement with social issues. While well-known poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti are well-represented in Moine's study! she pays particular attention to lesser known writers such as Mary Howitt or Eliza Cook who were popular during their lifetimes or Edith Nesbit! whose verse has received scant critical attention so far. She also brings to the fore the poetry of many non-professional poets. Looking to their immediate cultural environments for inspiration! these women reconstructed the natural world in poems that raise questions about the validity and the scope of representations of nature! ultimately questioning or undermining social practices that mould and often fossilise cultural identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents: Introduction 1 A Woman's Place is in the Garden 2 Saying it with Flowers 3 Digging for Identity 4 Manipulating the Animal 5 Science with a Conscience Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Fabienne Moine, Fabienne Moine
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2015
• EAN: 9781472464774
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-6477-4
• No. of pages: 305
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets