Charlotte Smith

Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-04
Mått:138 x 216 x 11 mm
Vikt:249 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719083211

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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.

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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