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Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry: inventing agency, inventing genre

Paula R. Backscheider
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Abbreviations (page xi)
  • Plan of the Book (page xiii)
    • Approaching the Poetry (page xix)
    • The Chapters (page xxii)
  • I Introduction (page 1)
    • Changing Contexts (page 2)
    • Systems, Gender, and Persistent Issues (page 14)
    • Agency and the "Marked Marker" (page 22)
  • 2 Anne Finch and What Women Wrote (page 28)
    • The Social and the Formal (page 29)
    • Anne Finch and Popular Poetry (page 39)
    • Poetry on Poetry (page 58)
    • The Spleen as Legacy (page 72)
  • 3 Women and Poetry in the Public Eye (page 80)
    • Poetry as News and Critique (page 84)
    • The Woman Question (page 99)
    • Elizabeth Singer Rowe (page 113)
  • 4 Hymns, Narratives, and Innovations in Religious Poetry (page 123)
    • The Voice of Paraphrase (page 126)
    • The Hymn as Personal Lyric (page 137)
    • Religious Poetry as Subversive Narrative (page 152)
    • Devout Soliloquies (page 168)
  • 5 Friendship Poems (page 175)
    • The Legacy of Katherine Philips (page 177)
    • Encouragement and the Counteruniverse (page 193)
    • Jane Brereton (page 217)
    • Adaptation and Ideology (page 223)
  • 6 Retirement Poetry (page 233)
    • Beyond Convention (page 234)
    • Memory, Time, and Elizabeth Carter (page 241)
    • Reflection and Difference (page 257)
  • 7 The Elegy (page 268)
    • What Did Women Write? (page 271)
    • Representative Composers: Darwall and Seward (page 286)
    • The Elegy and Same-Sex Desire (page 296)
    • Entertainment and Forgetting (page 312)
  • 8 The Sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and What Women Wrote (page 316)
    • The Sonnet and the Political (page 317)
    • Sonnet Sequences (page 325)
    • Women Poets and the Spread of the Sonnet (page 338)
    • The Emigrants, Conversations, and Beachy Head (page 351)
    • Smith as Transitional Poet (page 366)
  • 9 Conclusion (page 376)
  • Biographies of the Poets (page 403)
  • Notes (page 413)
  • Bibliography (page 467)
  • Index (page 499)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MLR 103.1 (Jan. 2008): 191-192 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20467664
WC 37.4 (Autumn 2006): 243-245 http://www.jstor.org/stable/24045168
ES 40.1 (Fall 2006): 132-135 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053499
MP 106.2 (Nov. 2008): 293-297 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/598554
18C 49.2 (Summer 2008): 181-185 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_eighteenth_century/v049/49.2.keith.html
TSWL 29.1 (Spring 2010): 137-158 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tulsa_studies_in_womens_literature/v029/29.1.mcdowell.html
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801881695 (hardcover)
  • 9780801887468 (paper)
  • 9780801895906 (ebook)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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