Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment

Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781349270248
ISBN-13 : 1349270245
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Book Synopsis Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment by : Isobel Armstrong

Download or read book Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment written by Isobel Armstrong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.


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