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The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction; I.Armstrong & V.Blain PART ONE: CHANGING GENRES AND CODES ACROSS THE CENTURY: WAYS OF THEORISING WOMEN'S POETRY Misrepresentation: Codes of Affect and Politics in 19th-Century Women's Poetry; I.Armstrong The Whip Signature: Violence, Feminism and Women Poets; C.Walker Caroline Norton, 'The Picture of Sappho'; Y.Prins PART TWO: THE MARKET AND THE POETESS: COMMERCIAL AND AESTHETIC VALUE The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace; P.R.Feldman Bijous Beyond Possession: The Prima Donnas of L.E.L.'s Album Poems; C.E.Lawford Rewriting A History of the Lyre : Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the (Re)Construction of the 19th-Century Woman Poet; L.H.Peterson PART THREE: LESBIAN POETICS Sexual Politics of the (Victorian) Closet or : No Sex Please - We're Poets; V.Blain 'I Leave a Page Half-Writ': Narrative Discoherence in Michael Field's Underneath the Bough ; R.P.Fletcher Contradictions? - Amy Levy: Feminism and Semitic Discourse; E.Francis PART FOUR: COLONIAL POETICS, NATIONAL IDENTITY Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India; M.Mukherjee Reviving Laurence Hope; E.Marx Hemans and Her American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry and National Identity; T.Lootens PART FIVE: REMAKING DISCOURSES: GROTESQUE, DEVOTIONAL, SCIENTIFIC 'All Mouth and Trousers': Christina Rossetti's Grotesque and Abjected Bodies; K.Burlinson Mysteries Beyond Angels in Christina Rossetti's From House to Home ; L.E.Marshall Theology and the Jewish Woman Poet; C.Scheinberg Victorian Women Poets and Scientific Narratives; H.Groth PART SIX: REREADING FORGOTTEN POETS Adelaide Procter: A Poetics of Reserve and Passion; G.Gregory Why is This Woman Still Missing? Emily Pfeiffer, Victorian Poet; K.Hickock Endnote; C.Kaplan Index
About the author
KATHRYN BURLINSON Lecturer in English and Drama, University of Southampton PAULA R. FELDMAN Professor of English, University of South Carolina ROBERT P. FLETCHER Assistant Professor of English, West Chester University EMMA FRANCIS Lecturer in English and Feminist Theory, University of Warwick GILL GREGORY Lecturer in Adult and Higher Education, London HELEN GROTH Lecturer, University of Melbourne KATHLEEN HICKOK Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department, Iowa State University CYNTHIA LAWFORD is currently writing a critical biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon for her doctoral dissertation at the City University of New York LINDA MARSHALL has just retired as Associate Professor of English from the University of Guelph, Canada EDWARD MARX is currently working on a critical biography of Laurence Hope MENAKSHEE MUKHERJEE LINDA H. PETERSON Professor and Chairman of English, Yale University YOPIE PRINS Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan CYNTHIA SCHEINBERG Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mills College, Oakland, California CHERYL WALKER Richard Armour Professor of Modern Languages, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
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The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers.
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'Another important work on Victorian women writers...' - Years Work in English Studies
