Women's poetry in the Enlightenment : the making of a canon, 1730-1820 / edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Isobel.

Blain, Virginia, 1945-

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Women authors.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Enlightenment--Great Britain.

Enlightenment.

Canon (Literature).

Local Subjects:

Canon (Literature).

Enlightenment--Great Britain.

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press in association with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1999.

Summary:

A unique collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth-century and late enlightenment, this is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of the formal experiments, aesthetics, and politics of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the politics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage are themes of the collection.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

0312212828

0333691512

OCLC:

37755247