Victorian Women Poets
Edited by Alison Chapman, University of Glasgow
ISBN: 0859917878 First published May 2003 £30.00 / US$60.0
The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, 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, 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.
Contents
‘Jewels-Delights-Perfect Loves’: Victorian Women Poets and the Annuals, Patricia Pulham,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Garrisonians: ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’, the Boston Female Anti
Slavery Society, and the Abolitionist Discourse in The Liberty Bell, Marjorie Stone
The Expatriate Poetess: Nationhood, Poetics and Politics, Alison Chapman
Rethinking the Dramatic Monologue: Victorian Women Poets and Social Critique, Glennis Byron
Christina Rossetti’s Petrarca, Michele Martinez
“A Still and Mute-Born Vision”: Locating Mathilde Blind’s Reproductive Poetics, Susan Brown
Towards a New History: Fin-de-Siècle Women Poets and the Sonnet, Natalie Houston
Reassessing Margarey Veley’s Poetry: the Value of Harper’s Transatlantic Spirit, Joseph Bristow
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