TY  - GEN
T1  - Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Backscheider, Paula R., 1943-
LA  - English
PP  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn547500660
AB  - This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new 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. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.
OP  - 514
CN  - PR555.W6 B33 2005eb
SN  - 9780801895906
SN  - 0801895901
SN  - 0801881692
SN  - 9780801881695
SN  - 0801887461
SN  - 9780801887468
KW  - English poetry : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Women and literature : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - English poetry : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Authorship : Sex differences : History : 18th century.
KW  - Invention (Rhetoric) : History : 18th century.
KW  - Literary form : History : 18th century.
KW  - English literature : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Poésie anglaise : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Art d'écrire : Différences entre sexes : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Invention (Rhétorique) : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Genres littéraires : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - POETRY : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - English literature : Women authors
KW  - Authorship : Sex differences
KW  - English poetry
KW  - English poetry : Women authors
KW  - Invention (Rhetoric)
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Vrouwelijke auteurs.
KW  - Gedichten.
KW  - Frauenlyrik
KW  - Women and literature : Great Britain : 18th century.
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -