Research Catalog

Title

Victorian women poets / edited and introduced by Tess Cosslett.

Publication

London ; New York : Longman, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Cosslett, Tess.

Description

x, 286 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

One of the triumphs of feminist criticism has been to rescue major poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti from neglect. While the essays chosen for this volume focus on these three major figures, work is also included on less well-known poets who have only recently been brought into critical prominence. The introduction clarifies for the reader the themes, problems and preoccupations that inform the criticism and provides a useful guide to the debates surrounding poetry and feminism. The advantages and disadvantages of applying different critical approaches, such as psychoanalytic and historicist, to the understanding of this period and genre are also fully explored. The substantial introduction, headnotes, detailed bibliography and suggestions for further reading will make this book essential reading for students of English, Victorian and Women's Literature, and Feminist Critical Theory.

Series Statement

Longman critical readers

Uniform Title

Longman critical readers.

Subject

• English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• English poetry > History and criticism
• Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Emily Bronte. 1. Emily Bronte / Margaret Homans. 2. The Archetypal Feminine in Emily Bronte's Poetry / Christine Gallant. 3. 'What Language Can Utter the Feeling': Identity in the Poetry of Emily Bronte / Kathryn Burlinson -- pt. 2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 4. Introduction to Aurora Leigh / Cora Kaplan. 5. Face to Face: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Nineteenth-Century Poetry / Dolores Rosenblum. 6. Defiled Text and Political Poetry / Deirdre David. 7. A Printing Woman Who Has Lost her Place': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh / Rod Edmond -- pt. 3. Christina Rossetti. 8. The Aesthetics of Renunciation / Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. 9. Heroic Sisterhood in Goblin Market / Dorothy Mermin. 10. Christina Rossetti -- Diary of a Feminist Reading / Isobel Armstrong. 11. Intertextuality: Dante, Petrarch and Christina Rossetti / Antony Harrison. 12. 'Men Sell Not Such in Any Town': Exchange in Goblin Market / Terrence Holt.

ISBN

• 0582276497 (pbk.)
• 0582276500 (case)

LCCN

^^^96023025^

OCLC

34731874

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library