Victorian Women Poets

Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.

List of contents

'Such jewels - delights - perfect loves': Victorian Women Poets and the Annuals - Patricia Pulham
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Garrisonians: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point', the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and Abolitionist Discourse in the Liberty Belland Abolitionist Discourse in the Liberty Bell - Marjorie Stone
The Expatriate Poetess: Nationhood, Poetics and Politics - Alison Chapman
Rethinking the Dramatic Monologue: Victorian Women Poets and Social Critique - Glennis Byron
Christina Rossetti's Petrarca - Michele Martinez
'A still and mute-born vision': Locating Mathilde Blind's Reproductive Poetics - Susan Brown
Towards a New History: Fin-de-Siècle Women Poets and the Sonnet - Natalie M Houston
Reassessing Margaret Veley's Poetry: The Value of Harper's Transatlantic Spirit - Joseph Bristow

About the author

Alison Chapman

Product details

• Authors: Alison Chapman
• Assisted by: Alison Chapman (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2005
• EAN: 9780859917872
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-787-2
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies