Romantic women poets : : genre and gender / / edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Cecilia Pietropoli.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 39
• Author: Pietropoli, Cecilia.
• TeilnehmendeR: Crisafulli, Lilla Maria.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature ; 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; INTRODUCTION /; ANNA SEWARD AND THE DYNAMICS OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP /; “KNOW ME WHAT I PAINT”: WOMEN POETS AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE SKETCH 1770-1830 /; WITHIN OR WITHOUT? PROBLEMS OF PERSPECTIVE IN CHARLOTTE SMITH, ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD AND DOROTHY WORDSWORTH /; HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: THE SHAPING OF A POETIC IDENTITY /; LISTING THE BUSY SOUNDS: ANNA SEWARD, MARY ROBINSON AND THE POETIC CHALLENGE OF THE CITY /; JOANNA BAILLIE’S EMBARRASSMENT /; THE “PIECES OF POETRY” IN ANN RADCLIFFE’S THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO /; ENDING THE ROMANCE: WOMEN POETS AND THE ROMANTIC VERSE TALE /; LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON’S THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE FATAL COMBINATION OF GENDER AND GENRE /; ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD’S ETHICS OF SENTIMENT /; WOMEN ROMANCE WRITERS: MARY TIGHE AND MARY HAYS /; FELICIA HEMANS, LETITIA LANDON, AND “LADY’S RULE” /; WOMEN RE-WRITING MEN: THE EXAMPLES OF ANNA SEWARD AND LADY CAROLINE LAMB /; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282265814; 9786612265815; 9401204756; 1435611861
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Cecilia Pietropoli.

Romantic Women Poets: Genre and Gender focuses on the part played by women poets in the creation of the literary canon in the Romantic period in Britain. Its thirteen essays enrich our panoramic view of an age that is traditionally dominated by male authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Scott. Instead the volume concentrates on the poetical theory and practice of such extraordinary and fascinating women as Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetita Barbauld, Dorothy Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Anna Seward, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Female and male poetics, gender and genres, literary forms and poetic modes are extensively discussed together with the diversity of behaviour and personal responses that the individual women poets offered to their age and provoked in their readers. There have been several important collections of essays in this particular area of study in the last few years, but this volume reflects and complements much of this earlier critical work with specific strengths of its own.