The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781316633571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 332 str.

Linda K. Hughes

Opis

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.

Recenzje

'All of the chapters are deeply informed and scholarly, but also readable and accessible.' Martin Dubois, Tennyson Research Bulletin

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of publications and events, compiled by Sofia Prado Huggins; 1. Introduction Linda K. Hughes; Part I. Form and the Senses: 2. Genres Monique R. Morgan; 3. Prosody Meredith Martin; 4. Haunted by voice Elizabeth Helsinger; 5. Floating worlds: wood engraving and women's poetry Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; 6. Embodiment and touch Jason R. Rudy; Part II. Women's Poetry in the World: 7. Publishing and reception Alexis Easley; 8. Transatlanticism, transnationality, and cosmopolitanism Alison Chapman; 9. Dialect, region, class, work Kirstie Blair; 10. Politics, protest, interventions: beyond a poetess tradition Marjorie Stone; 11. Religion and spirituality Charles Laporte; Part III. Nurturance and Contested Naturalness: 12. Children's poetry Laurie Langbauer and Beverly Taylor; 13. Marriage, motherhood, and domesticity Emily Harrington; 14. Sexuality Jill Ehnenn; 15. Poets of style: poetries of asceticism and excess Ana Parejo Vadillo; Part IV. Reading Victorian Women's Poetry: 16. Distant reading and Victorian women's poetry Natalie M. Houston; Afterword. Nineteenth-century women's poetry in the field of vision Isobel Armstrong; Further reading; Appendix. Poets' biographies.