Womens Poetry Late Romantic

This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth-century and Enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage are themes of the collection, which includes discussion of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearslep, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.

A unique collection of essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth-century and late enlightenment, the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of the formal experiments, aesthetics and politics of their work.

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A collection of essays taken primarily from the 1995 conference on "Rethinking Women's Poetry 1730-1930." International critics such as Cheryl Walker, Paula Feldman, and Meenakshi Mukherjee explore the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated writers. Other topics include the commercial and aesthetic value of the poetry, lesbian and colonial poetics, and forgotten poets. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Isobel Armstrong is Professor of English at Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Virginia Blain is Associate Professor of English at Macquarie University, Sydney.