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Beskrivning
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.
Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick
Recensioner i media
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.
Innehållsförteckning
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Embodying the author1. The possibilities of print2. 'Elegaic Sonnets' I: The good mother3. 'Elegaic Sonnets' II: The woman in need4. On the edge: Politics and the strictures of subjectivity in 'The Emigrants'5. Locating the poet in 'Beachy Head'Coda: Smith, poetry, RomanticismBibliography
