Political Poetess - Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"--one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's politica

About the author

Tricia Lootens is associate professor of English and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Lost Saints:  Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization.

Summary

The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"--one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's politica

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"In all these ways, the Political Poetess becomes integral to the revisionist history of the female literary tradition emphasising national anxieties. . . . [Lootens] reads with acumen and diligently researches the historical circumstances of poetic production."---Georgia Gotsi, Historical Review

Product details

• Authors: Tricia Lootens, Lootens Tricia
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780691170312
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17031-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: poetry and poets