Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart - Brossura

Leighton, Angela

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813914272 ISBN 13: 9780813914275

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1992

Riassunto

This book recovers and explores an important tradition of nineteenth-century women's poetry from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. Angela Leighton not only discusses the work of neglected poets such as Augusta Webster and "Michael Field," but also charts the development of women's poetry from sentimentalism of Hemans and L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) to the various strategies of self-displacement employed by the best of the Victorians, especially Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti. Combining biographical material with theoretical readings of the poems, Angela Leighton offers a reinterpretation not only of some original and intriguing literature, but also of the very canon of Victorian poetry. Impressive in scope and highly original in its aims, this study will serve as the main critical work in this area for many years to come.

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Victorian Women Poets aims to recover the lost map of Victorian women's poetry. In its sheer variety and energy it in fact offers nothing less than a complete refiguring of the Victorian poetic canon.

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• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0813914272
• ISBN 13: 9780813914275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 321