There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the English poetic landscape of the nineteenth century. This title offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian women poets from Christina Rosetti and Felicia Hemans to the witty, iconoclastic May Kendall. The book starts with a substantial general Introduction which places the work of the poets into a context both historical (that of the poems' production) and modern (that of their past and present reception). Each poet's work is introduced by an...
There has been a huge revival of interest in Victorian women's poetry in the last ten years, and it has led to a major reconfiguration of the Engli...
The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.
The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eigh...
First published in 1998, this volume combines a bio-critical account of Caroline Bowles Southey's career with a general selection of her works, both poetry and prose, with the latter drawing attention on her remarkable talent as a letter writer. It will appeal to scholars of Romanticism and the Victorian person as well as women's studies specialists and historians of autobiography.
First published in 1998, this volume combines a bio-critical account of Caroline Bowles Southey's career with a general selection of her works, both p...
