Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre /
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 presenti...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Changing contexts
- Systems, gender, and persistent issues
- Agency and the "marked marker"
- Anne Finch and what women wrote
- The social and the formal
- Anne Finch and popular poetry
- Poetry on poetry
- The spleen as legacy
- Women and poetry in the public eye
- Poetry as news and critique
- The woman question
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe
- Hymns, narratives, and innovations in religious poetry
- The voice of paraphrase
- The hymn as personal lyric
- Religious poetry as subversive narrative
- Devout soliloquies
- Friendship poems
- The legacy of Katherine Philips
- Encouragement and the counteruniverse
- Jane Brereton
- Adaptation and ideology
- Retirement poetry
- Beyond convention
- Memory, time, and Elizabeth Carter
- Reflection and difference
- The elegy
- What did women write?
- Representative composers: Darwall and Seward
- The elegy and same-sex desire
- Entertainment and forgetting
- The sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and what women wrote
- The sonnet and the political
- Sonnet sequences
- Women poets and the spread of the sonnet
- The emigrants, conversations, and Beachy Head
- Smith as transitional poet.
