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Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment : The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820

Armstrong, Isobel(Edited by)Blain, Virginia(Edited by)
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This collection of 12 essays on women's poetry of the 18th century and the Enlightenment ranges widely over individual poets and undertakes an 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 projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.

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Palgrave Macmillan
0333691512 / 9780333691519
Hardback
11/11/1998
United Kingdom
English
xvi, 226p.
22 cm
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