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Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment

The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Isobel Armstrong

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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  2. Virginia Blain

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Sensuous Eighteenth Century: Minds and Bodies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

      • Margaret Anne Doody
      Pages 3-32

    3. ‘All Passion Extinguish’ d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687–1745

      • David Shuttleton
      Pages 33-49

    4. ‘A Dialogue’: Elizabeth Carter’s Passion for the Female Mind

      • Lisa A. Freeman
      Pages 50-63

  5. Remaking Genres and Subjectivities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self

      • Stuart Curran
      Pages 145-166

    3. Homosocial Women: Martha Sansom, Constantia Grierson, Mary Leapor and Georgic Verse Epistle

      • Kate Lilley
      Pages 167-183

    4. Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets: Losses and Gains

      • Judith Hawley
      Pages 184-198

  6. Finale: A Female Canon?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology

      • Elizabeth Eger
      Pages 201-215

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 216-226
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About this book

This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.

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'...in Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment the variety of subject and approach are a strength. The essays...add much to our understanding of the distinctive nature of women's writing.' - Lisa Vargo, Romanticism

'A stimulating collection of essays.' - British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Isobel Armstrong

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Virginia Blain

About the editors

STUART CURRAN Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania MARGARET ANN DOODY Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee ELIZABETH EGER Research Student, King's College, Cambridge MAGGIE FAVRETTI teaches at Scarsdale High School, New York City LISA A. FREEMAN Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago ISOBEL GRUNDY Henry Marshall Tory Professor, English Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada JUDITH HAWLEY Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London ANNE MELLOR Professor of English and Women's Studies, UCLA ROGER SALES Professor of English Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia and also Dean of the School DAVID E. SHOTTLETON Lecturer, English Department, University of Wales, Aberystwyth MARY WALDRON lectures part-time for the Department of Continuing Education, University of Essex.

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