Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart

by Angela Leighton

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This book recovers and explores an important tradition of nineteenth-century women's poetry from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. Angela Leighton not only discusses the work of neglected poets such as Augusta Webster and "Michael Field," but also charts the development of women's poetry from sentimentalism of Hemans and L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) to the various strategies of self-displacement employed by the best of the Victorians, especially...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813914272

ISBN13:9780813914275

Release Date:July 1992

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:321 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Criticism & Theory Europe Genres & Styles History & Criticism Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Poetry Victorian Wales

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