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Womens Poetry, Late Romantic To Late Victorian: Gender And Genre, 1830-1900
Editor: Armstrong, Isobel; Author: Armstrong, Asobel
Hardcover Published: January 1999 St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312215363
This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth-century and Enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive 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 discussionof the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearslep, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.

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