Nineteenth-century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology - Softcover

Armstrong, Isobel

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ISBN 10: 0198184832 ISBN 13: 9780198184836

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1998

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As this anthology shows, women did write during the nineteenth century, copiously and for the same reasons that men and women always have. It is always terrifying to have to stand -- or fall -- on one's own merits. This meticulously presented anthology shows us very clearly why those poets of the last century who also happened to be women should finally be allowed to do so. Times Literary Supplement offers a fine, and almost certainly influential, example of this new approach ... this book offers some important criteria by which to judge the poetry of the last century The Times Higher Education Supplement

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INineteenth-Century Women Poets is a major new anthology, selecting widely from writings produced in a period that has traditionally been associated with relatively few eminent female poets. Opening with Anna Laetitia Barbauld's petition to William Wilberforce and ending with the myth-making Irish writers of the Celtic revival, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets rediscovers rich and diverse female traditions. The anthology presents the work of over one hundred women writers. Besides featuring distinguished middle-class poets such as Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the collection presents work by authors such as Maria Jane Jewsbury, Augusta Webster, and Michael Field, whose significance is only now becoming apparent. It achieves range and depth by reprinting poems by working-class, colonial, and political poets, in addition to very substantial selections from the work of major figures. The collection draws on first editions wherever possible. The chronological span of the anthology provides a unique perspective on women's poetry from the late-Romantic period to the Victorian fin-de-siecle . This book is intended for general readers; scholars and students (undergraduate and postgraduate) of English literature, women's studies, 19th-century studies, and humanities.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198184832
• ISBN 13: 9780198184836
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 868