Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backs...
Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backs...
Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backscheider.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N821.50992/2
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English
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xvii, 514 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Anne Finch and what women wrote -- 3. Women and poetry in the public eye -- 4. Hymns, narratives, and innovations in religious poetry -- 5. Friendship poems -- 6. Retirement poetry -- 7. The elegy -- 8. The sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and what women wrote -- 9. Conclusion.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
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Maryland
Date Published
2005.
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"This major original study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of important poetic genres and traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
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Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre / Paula R. Backscheider.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-498) and index.
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N821.50992/2
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74VKRpdyDyLy
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0801881692 (alk. paper)
9780801881695 (alk. paper)
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821.5099287
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991023026019702626
