Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Changing Genres and Codes across the Century: Ways of Theorizing Women’s Poetry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Msrepresentation

      • Isobel Armstrong

      Pages 3-32

   3. The Whip Signature

      • Cheryl Walker

      Pages 33-49

   4. Personifying the Poetess

      • Yopie Prins

      Pages 50-67

3. The Market and the Poetess: Commercial and Aesthetic Value

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. The Poet and the Profits

      • Paula R. Feldman

      Pages 71-101

   3. Bijoux Beyond Possession

      • Cynthia Lawford

      Pages 102-114

   4. Rewriting A History of the Lyre

      • Linda H. Peterson

      Pages 115-132

4. Lesbian Poetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Sexual Politics of the (Victorian) Closet;

      • Virginia Blain

      Pages 135-163

   3. ‘I leave a page half-writ’

      • Robert P. Fletcher

      Pages 164-182

   4. Amy Levy

      • Emma Francis

      Pages 183-204

5. Colonial Poetics, National Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Hearing her Own Voice

      • Meenakshi Mukherjee

      Pages 207-229

   3. Reviving Laurence Hope

      • Edward Marx

      Pages 230-242

   4. Hemans and her American Heirs

      • Tricia Lootens

      Pages 243-260

6. Remaking Discourses — Grotesque, Devotional, Patriotic, Scientific

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. ‘Measure to yourself a prophet’s place’

      • Cynthia Scheinberg

      Pages 263-291

   3. ‘All mouth and trousers’

      • Kathryn Burlinson

      Pages 292-312

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.

• gender
• poem
• poet
• poetics
• poetry
• Romanticism
• women

'Another important work on Victorian women writers...' - Years Work in English Studies

• Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

  Isobel Armstrong

• Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  Virginia Blain

KATHRYN BURLINSON Lecturer in English and Drama, University of Southampton PAULA R. FELDMAN Professor of English, University of South Carolina ROBERT P. FLETCHER Assistant Professor of English, West Chester University EMMA FRANCIS Lecturer in English and Feminist Theory, University of Warwick GILL GREGORY Lecturer in Adult and Higher Education, London HELEN GROTH Lecturer, University of Melbourne KATHLEEN HICKOK Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department, Iowa State University CYNTHIA LAWFORD is currently writing a critical biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon for her doctoral dissertation at the City University of New York LINDA MARSHALL has just retired as Associate Professor of English from the University of Guelph, Canada EDWARD MARX is currently working on a critical biography of Laurence Hope MENAKSHEE MUKHERJEE LINDA H. PETERSON Professor and Chairman of English, Yale University YOPIE PRINS Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan CYNTHIA SCHEINBERG Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mills College, Oakland, California CHERYL WALKER Richard Armour Professor of Modern Languages, Scripps College, Claremont, California.

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