{"product_id":"little-songs-amy-christine-billone-9780814257074","title":"Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLittle Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet, \u003c\/i\u003e Amy Christine Billone analyzes the bond between lyric poetry and silence in women's sonnets ranging from the late eighteenth-century works of Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and Anna Maria Smallpiece to Victorian texts by Elizabeth Barrett, Christina Rossetti, Isabella Southern, and other, lesser-known female poets. Although scholars acknowledge that women initiated the sonnet revival in England, \u003ci\u003eLittle Songs\u003c\/i\u003e is the only major study of nineteenth-century female sonneteers. Billone argues not that women's sonnets overcame silence in favor of lyrical speech during the nineteenth-century sonnet revival, but rather that women simultaneously posited both muteness and volubility through style and theme. In opposition to criticism that stresses a modern shift from compensatory to non-consolatory poems of mourning, Billone demonstrates how women invented contemporary elegiac poetics a century in advance. Adding to critical interest in the alliance between silence and literature, this book offers a complex study of the overwhelming impact that silence makes, not only on British women's poetry, but also on the development of modern poetry and intellectual inquiry. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eLittle Songs\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how the turn away from the kind of silence that preoccupied nineteenth-century women poets introduced the start of twentieth-century thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Christine Billone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Amy Christine Billone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435702956287,"sku":"9780814257074","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a47bf37-4e8e-4122-90f6-029c66d53e24.jpg?v=1777152137","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/little-songs-amy-christine-billone-9780814257074","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}