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This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender.

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One of several new books to insist on crediting nineteenth-century minds with their due measure of sophistication. Labbe argues persuasively that this magisterial persona actively critiques Smith's own earlier poetic practice as well as her culture's fictions of identity. -- .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Embodying the author
1. The possibilities of print
2. 'Elegaic Sonnets' I: The good mother
3. 'Elegaic Sonnets' II: The woman in need
4. On the edge: Politics and the strictures of subjectivity in 'The Emigrants'
5. Locating the poet in 'Beachy Head'
Coda: Smith, poetry, Romanticism
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 1/4/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719083211, 978-0719083211
      ISBN10: 0719083214

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender.

      Trade Review
      One of several new books to insist on crediting nineteenth-century minds with their due measure of sophistication. Labbe argues persuasively that this magisterial persona actively critiques Smith's own earlier poetic practice as well as her culture's fictions of identity. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction: Embodying the author
      1. The possibilities of print
      2. 'Elegaic Sonnets' I: The good mother
      3. 'Elegaic Sonnets' II: The woman in need
      4. On the edge: Politics and the strictures of subjectivity in 'The Emigrants'
      5. Locating the poet in 'Beachy Head'
      Coda: Smith, poetry, Romanticism
      Bibliography

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