The romance of the lyric in nineteenth-century women's poetry : experiments in form / Lee Christine O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Lee Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

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

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This feminist recuperation of the work of numerous women across the Romantic and Victorian periods presented in this monograph puts not only the canon of poetry under interrogation but also periodisation. Using a number of previously unknown women poets, and a new elaboration of the significance of the work of Rosamund Marriott Watson, this study intersects with some of the most exciting current debates in nineteenth-century studies, around, for example, the uses of sentimentality and emotion, material culture, the archive, and parody.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Reading Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry in the Twenty-First Century; Chapter Two: From Rags to Verses: Technology, Fugitive Poetry, and the Domestic as Ephemera; Chapter Three: Lyric Space and Romance Forms; Chapter Four: Uncanny Transactions and Canny Forms: Rosamund Marriott Watson's Märchen; Chapter Five: Parodic Myth: Unveiling Allegory and the Domestication of Myth in an Early Victorian Love Lyric; Chapter Six: "And Ho, So Very Still She Stands": Rosamund Marriott Watson's Pygmalion and The Art of the House

Chapter Seven: Monsters and DoublesChapter Eight: "Witches' Play"; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-283-65869-0

1-61149-392-7

OCLC:

817829353