Feminist criticism is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In this book, five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have offered a re-reading.

Feminist criticism is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In this book, five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have offered a re-reading.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life's work as a poet, in part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her work. Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems, Sonnets From the Portuguese, but also lesser known sonnets, some in praise of the cross-dressing...

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.