Victorian Women Poets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780859917872)

In the last decade, the phenomenal diversity, inventiveness and richness of poetry by Victorian women has been made newly accessible through anthologies and editions. The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America who have participated in this exciting literary renaissance, offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers. The volume both engages critically with the political and aesthetic agenda behind the project of recovery, questioning the implicit notions of value, authorship and canonicity, and also presents a pioneering approach to reading poets who have slipped out of the canon. The work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti is re-assessed and given surprising and innovative literary, political and intellectual contexts that will change the way we interpret their poetry. Writers of emerging significance, such as Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field and Margaret Veley, are given prominence in groundbreaking analysis that situates their writing within the wider debates of the period. The themes interwoven throughout the essays - literary history and canonicity, political poetics, nationhood, print culture, and genre - provide a radically new understanding of Victorian women's poetry that maps an agenda for future research.

Author: Alison Chapman
ISBN-10: 0859917878
ISBN-13: 9780859917872
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2005
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.08h x 5.98w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1669