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Author | : Paula R. Backscheider |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2005-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801895901 |
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“Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature). This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women’s poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important verse forms, she sheds light on such topics as women’s use of religious poetry to express ideas about patriarchy and rape; the important role of friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet. Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Author | : Roger Lonsdale |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780192827753 |
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More than 100 women poets of the 18th century are represented in this anthology. Written by duchesses, ladies and working women, the poems speak with vigour and immediacy of the world they lived in and their experiences of town and country.
Author | : Paula R. Backscheider |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 957 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801892775 |
Download British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme, offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers addressed, including war, ecology, friendship, religion, and the stages of life; and by the poems’ more specific focus on the women’s experiences as writers. Backscheider and Ingrassia have selected poems that represent the best work of skilled poets, creating a wonderful mix of canonical and little-known pieces. They include the complete texts of longer poems that are abridged or omitted in other collections. Their substantial part introductions, textual notes, bibliographical information, and biographical sketches situate the poets and their writings within the cultural and political milieu in which they appeared. To generate further scholarship on this subject, this essential anthology puts primary texts in front of students, scholars, and general readers. It fills the persistent need to document women’s poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.
Author | : Paula R. Backscheider |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2005-12-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801881695 |
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Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.
Author | : Paula R. Backscheider |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 957 |
Release | : 2022-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421446731 |
Download British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme, offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers addressed, including war, ecology, friendship, religion, and the stages of life; and by the poems’ more specific focus on the women’s experiences as writers. Backscheider and Ingrassia have selected poems that represent the best work of skilled poets, creating a wonderful mix of canonical and little-known pieces. They include the complete texts of longer poems that are abridged or omitted in other collections. Their substantial part introductions, textual notes, bibliographical information, and biographical sketches situate the poets and their writings within the cultural and political milieu in which they appeared. To generate further scholarship on this subject, this essential anthology puts primary texts in front of students, scholars, and general readers. It fills the persistent need to document women’s poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.
Author | : Jane Stevenson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198185022 |
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Author | : David Fairer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317892879 |
Download English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
Author | : Anne Milne |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838756928 |
Download "Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lactilla Tends her Fav'rite Cow benefits from the foundations set by earlier studies of laboring-class writers even as it extends their conclusions through the use of an explicitly ecocritical perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Richard Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Poets, English |
ISBN | : 9780191671234 |
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Mary Leapor (1722-1746), a Northamptonshire kitchen maid produced a substantial body of exceptional poetry which was only published after her death at the age of 24. This book examines Leapor's poetry.
Author | : Leslie Ritchie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351536613 |
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Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barth?mon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity. Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.