Victorian Women Poets [Hardcover]

The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers. The volume both engages critically with the political and aesthetic agenda behind the project of recovery, and also presents a pioneering approach to reading poets who have slipped out of the canon. The work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti is re-assessed and given surprising and innovative literary, political and intellectual contexts that will change the way we interpret their poetry. Writers of emerging significance, such as Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field and Margaret Veley, are given prominence in groundbreaking analysis that situates their writing within the wider debates of the period. The themes interwoven throughout the essays - literary history and canonicity, political poetics, nationhood, print culture, and genre - provide a radically new understanding of Victorian women's poetry that maps an agenda for future research.JOSEPH BRISTOW, SUSAN BROWN, GLENNIS BYRON, ALISON CHAPMAN, NATALIE M. HOUSTON, MICHELE MARTINEZ, PATRICIA PULHAM, MARJORIE STONE. ALISON CHAPMAN lectures in English literature at the University of Glasgow.Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.'Such jewels - delights - perfect loves': Victorian Women Poets and the Annuals - Patricia PulhamElizabeth Barrett Browning and the Garrisonians: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point', the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and Abolitionist Discourse in the Liberty Belland Abolitionist Discourse in the Liberty Bell - Marjorie StoneThe Expatriate Poetess: Nationhood, Poetics and Politics - Alison ChapmanRethinking the Dramatic Monologue: Victorian Women Poets and Social Critique - Glennis ByronChristina Rossetti's Petrarca - Michele Martinez'A still and mute-bornlÓ.