Nineteenth-century women poets

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Jump
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Poets

LYRICAL STUDIES

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Jackson ◽  
Yopie Prins
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Victorian Women ◽  
On Line ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Victorian Women Poets

THE VICTORIAN POETESS has become as important a figure in the late twentieth century as she was in the late nineteenth — perhaps because she seems now, as then, to have lapsed into the obscurity of literary history. In recent years feminist critics have been interested in reclaiming a tradition of nineteenth-century popular poetesses whose verse circulated broadly on both sides of the Atlantic. A spate of new anthologies, annotated editions, and critical collections (as well as texts now available on-line) has reintroduced supposedly lost women poets into the canon of Victorian poetry. Indeed, this recovery is often predicated on a rhetoric of loss, as if only by losing women poets we can rediscover and read them anew. Thus in recent advertisements for such anthologies, we read that Victorian Women Poets (edited by Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds in 1995) “aims to recover the lost map of Victorian women’s poetry,” and British Women Poets of the 19th Century (edited by Margaret Higonnet in 1996) “restores the voices and reputations of these ‘lost’ artists”; likewise, the compendious Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (edited by Isobel Armstrong and Joseph Bristow with Cath Sharrock in 1996) “rediscovers rich and diverse female traditions.”

Nineteenth-century women poets

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-346
Author(s):  
Bridget Hill
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Poets

Ballad Knowledge and the Poetics of Repetition

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-140
Author(s):  
Alexandra Socarides
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Traditional Ballads ◽  
And Gender

Chapter 3 explores a genre (the ballad) that was wildly popular in nineteenth-century America, and investigates the ways in which women poets entered into discussions about authorship, poetics, and gender through their engagements with it. Focusing in particular on tropes of faithlessness, pride, laziness, and general “badness” that had long marked traditional ballads, this chapter shows how these tropes came to be associated with women and how American periodicals seemed to embrace the circulation of such ballads. But as women poets took up this genre and were faced with how to rewrite this female figure, they pushed its primary convention—repetition—to its limits in order to make explicit the particular problem that accompanies the recitation of “ballad knowledge” for women. Instead of looking away from the scenes of repetition that disempower women, these ballads go right to the center, employing repetitions to new ends.

Nineteenth-Century French Women Poets: An Exceptional Legacy

2002 ◽  
Vol 2002 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimée Boutin ◽  
Adrianna M. Paliyenko
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Poets
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