{"product_id":"eighteenth-century-women-poets-and-their-paula-r-backscheider-9780801887468","title":"Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre","description":"\u003cp\u003eCo-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBackscheider 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula R. Backscheider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801887461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801887468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.31w x 1.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 255","brand":"Paula R. Backscheider","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086873145599,"sku":"9780801887468","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53f45335-4bd5-41dc-93b7-6ae62206fb21.jpg?v=1769097075","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eighteenth-century-women-poets-and-their-paula-r-backscheider-9780801887468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}