The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry

342 Pages·2019·15.393 MB·English

by  Linda K. Hughes

the cambridge companion to victorian women’s poetry
TheVictorianperiodhasastrongtraditionofpoetrywrittenbywomen.Inthis
Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that
situateVictorianwomen’spoetryinitsrelationtoprintculture,diverseidenti-
ties,andaestheticandculturalissues.Thebookisinclusiveinmethod,demon-
strating,forexample,thebenefitsofbothdistantandclosereadingapproaches
and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina
Rossetti but also more than one hundred poets altogether. Thematically
arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects
that address women’s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global
context.Chaptersshedlightonchildren’spoetry,domesticrelations,sexualities,
andstylisticartificeandconcludebylookingathowwomenpoetsplacedtheir
publishedpoemsandhowwecan“place”Victorianwomenpoetstoday.
LindaK.HughesisAddieLevyProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatTexasChristian
University.SheistheauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoVictorianPoetry
(Cambridge, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of
Letters(2005),co-authorofTheVictorianSerialandVictorianPublishingand
Mrs.Gaskell’sWork(1999),andcoeditorofthefour-volumeFeministReader:
FeministThoughtfromSapphotoSatrapi(2013).
Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO
VICTORIAN WOMEN’S
POETRY
EDITEDBY
LINDA K. HUGHES
TexasChristianUniversity
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the cambridge companion to victorian women’s poetry
TheVictorianperiodhasastrongtraditionofpoetrywrittenbywomen.Inthis
Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that
situateVictorianwomen’spoetryinitsrelationtoprintculture,diverseidenti-
ties,andaestheticandculturalissues.Thebookisinclusiveinmethod,demon-
strating,forexample,thebenefitsofbothdistantandclosereadingapproaches
and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina
Rossetti but also more than one hundred poets altogether. Thematically
arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects
that address women’s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global
context.Chaptersshedlightonchildren’spoetry,domesticrelations,sexualities,
andstylisticartificeandconcludebylookingathowwomenpoetsplacedtheir
publishedpoemsandhowwecan“place”Victorianwomenpoetstoday.
LindaK.HughesisAddieLevyProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatTexasChristian
University.SheistheauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoVictorianPoetry
(Cambridge, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of
Letters(2005),co-authorofTheVictorianSerialandVictorianPublishingand
Mrs.Gaskell’sWork(1999),andcoeditorofthefour-volumeFeministReader:
FeministThoughtfromSapphotoSatrapi(2013).
Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO
VICTORIAN WOMEN’S
POETRY
EDITEDBY
LINDA K. HUGHES
TexasChristianUniversity
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UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom
OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA
477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia
314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,
NewDelhi–110025,India
79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107182479
doi:10.1017/9781316856543
©CambridgeUniversityPress2019
Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception
andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,
noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten
permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.
Firstpublished2019
PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall
AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary.
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
names:Hughes,LindaK.,editor.
title:TheCambridgecompaniontoVictorianwomen’spoetry/editedbyLindaK.
Hughes,TexasChristianUniversity.
description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversity
Press,2019.|Includesbibliographicalreferences.
identifiers:lccn2018048301|isbn9781107182479(Hardback)|isbn
9781316633571(Paperback)
subjects:lcsh:Englishpoetry–19thcentury–Historyandcriticism.|Englishpoetry–
Womenauthors–Historyandcriticism.
classification:lccpr595.w6c362019|ddc821/.8099287–dc23
LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018048301
isbn978-1-107-18247-9Hardback
isbn978-1-316-63357-1Paperback
CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof
URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication
anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,
accurateorappropriate.
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the cambridge companion to victorian women’s poetry
TheVictorianperiodhasastrongtraditionofpoetrywrittenbywomen.Inthis
Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that
situateVictorianwomen’spoetryinitsrelationtoprintculture,diverseidenti-
ties,andaestheticandculturalissues.Thebookisinclusiveinmethod,demon-
strating,forexample,thebenefitsofbothdistantandclosereadingapproaches
and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina
Rossetti but also more than one hundred poets altogether. Thematically
arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects
that address women’s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global
context.Chaptersshedlightonchildren’spoetry,domesticrelations,sexualities,
andstylisticartificeandconcludebylookingathowwomenpoetsplacedtheir
publishedpoemsandhowwecan“place”Victorianwomenpoetstoday.
LindaK.HughesisAddieLevyProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatTexasChristian
University.SheistheauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoVictorianPoetry
(Cambridge, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of
Letters(2005),co-authorofTheVictorianSerialandVictorianPublishingand
Mrs.Gaskell’sWork(1999),andcoeditorofthefour-volumeFeministReader:
FeministThoughtfromSapphotoSatrapi(2013).
Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook.
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