Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.
This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets.
Furnished with a detailed introduction about women and poetic identity between 1830 and 1890, the volume includes an extensive bibliography suggesting further reading in what is a rapidly expanding field of criticism.
Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period.
Armstrong, Isobel. “The Gush of the Feminine: How Can We Read Women's Poetry of the Romantic Period?” Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Coun- tervoices. Eds. Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley. Hanover, NH: Univer- sity Press of ...
Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.
In addition to biographical information and contemporary reviews of the poets’ work, the anthology also includes several photographs of the poets, their environment, and the journals in which their poems appeared.
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.
Explores work of Felicia Hemans, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christine Rossetti, Augusta Webster, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Charlotte Mew.
Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery of Victorian women poets including Emily Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti by femine critics.
... Empire Public Discourse and the Boer War by Paula M. Krebs, Wheaton College, Massachusetts . Ruskin's God by Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton . Dickens and the Daughter of the House by Hilary.