Reconceiving Nature: Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry

Reconceiving Nature: Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
ISBN-10
0826274293
ISBN-13
9780826274298
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2019-03-28
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Author
Patricia Murphy

Description

Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets—Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington—who contested the exploitation of the natural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is inferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead “reconstructed” nature.

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