{"product_id":"eighteenthcentury-women-poets-and-their-poetry-inventing-agency-inventing-genre-9780801887468","title":"EighteenthCentury Women Poets and Their Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a fresh light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBackscheider... writes with an ease and clarity that make this book fully accessible. Choice 2006 Passionate and wide-ranging study. -- Helen Deutsch London Review of Books 2006 Wise and preeminently useful... A courageous book. -- Ellen Moody Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by the new work of Backscheider... Besides an excellent historical and cultural introduction on the landscape of poetry production in the eighteenth century,... each chapter offers fine-grained close readings of often fully quoted poems (many of which are still not readily available in print) along with biographical and formal contexts. -- Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 For specialists of eighteenth-century literature in English, this is a must-read book. -- Betty A. Schellenberg Eighteenth-Century Studies 2006 This book paves the way for further work and is itself a valuable contribution to exciting nascent debates. -- Louise Marshall Modern Language Review 2008 Brilliantly introduces issues, opportunities, and new directions, that open up vistas into a vital world of complex personalities, engaging social practices, and inspiring artistic achievements. -- Elizabeth Kraft Scriblerian 2008 One of the best and most significant books on eighteenth-century poetry to appear in recent years. -- Stephen C. Behrendt Wordsworth Circle 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003ePlan of the Book\u003cbr\u003eApproaching the Poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe Chapters\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChanging Contexts\u003cbr\u003eSystems, Gender, and Persistent Issues\u003cbr\u003eAgency and the ''Marked Marker''\u003cbr\u003e2. Anne Finch and What Women Wrote\u003cbr\u003eThe Social and the Formal\u003cbr\u003eAnne Finch and Popular Poetry\u003cbr\u003ePoetry on Poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe Spleen as Legacy\u003cbr\u003e3. Women and Poetry in the Public Eye\u003cbr\u003ePoetry as News and Critique\u003cbr\u003eThe Woman Question\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Singer Rowe\u003cbr\u003e4. Hymns, Narratives, and Innovations in Religious Poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe Voice of Paraphrase\u003cbr\u003eThe Hymn as Personal Lyric\u003cbr\u003eReligious Poetry as Subversive Narrative\u003cbr\u003eDevout Soliloquies\u003cbr\u003e5. Friendship Poems\u003cbr\u003eThe Legacy of Katherine Philips\u003cbr\u003eEncouragement and the Counteruniverse\u003cbr\u003eJane Brereton\u003cbr\u003eAdaptation and Ideology\u003cbr\u003e6. Retirement Poetry\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Convention\u003cbr\u003eMemory, Time, and Elizabeth Carter\u003cbr\u003eReflection and Difference\u003cbr\u003e7. The Elegy\u003cbr\u003eWhat Did Women Write?\u003cbr\u003eRepresentative Composers: Darwall and Seward\u003cbr\u003eThe Elegy and Same-Sex Desire\u003cbr\u003eEntertainment and Forgetting\u003cbr\u003e8. The Sonnet, Charlotte Smith, and What Women Wrote\u003cbr\u003eThe Sonnet and the Political\u003cbr\u003eSonnet Sequences\u003cbr\u003eWomen Poets and the Spread of the Sonnet\u003cbr\u003eThe Emigrants, Conversations, and Beachy Head\u003cbr\u003eSmith as Transitional Poet\u003cbr\u003e9. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eBiographies of the Poets\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405205021015,"sku":"9780801887468","price":40.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801887468.jpg?v=1730489102","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eighteenthcentury-women-poets-and-their-poetry-inventing-agency-inventing-genre-9780801887468","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}