The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107182479)

The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and aesthetic and cultural issues. The book is inclusive in method, demonstrating, for example, the benefits of both distant and close reading approaches, and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti and over one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women's poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context. Essays shed light on children's poetry, domestic relations, sexualities, and stylistic artifice and conclude by looking at how women poets placed their published poems and how we can 'place' Victorian women poets today.

Author: Linda K. Hughes
ISBN-10: 1107182476
ISBN-13: 9781107182479
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2019
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 9.20w x 0.70d