The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry
The Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situate Victorian women's poetry in its relation to print culture, diverse identities, and aesthetic and cultural issues. The book is inclusive in method, demonstrating, for example, the benefits of both distant and close reading approaches, and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti and over one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women's poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context. Essays shed light on children's poetry, domestic relations, sexualities, and stylistic artifice and conclude by looking at how women poets placed their published poems and how we can 'place' Victorian women poets today.
- Delivers a diverse and comprehensive survey of women's poetry in the Victorian age
- Essays by leading scholars investigate the multiple forms and social contexts of Victorian women's poetry
- The book is supported by a detailed chronology of publications and events, further reading, illustrations, and biographies of select poets
Reviews & endorsements
'The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry is an invigorating and accessible volume which is highly attuned to the pressures on the discipline in the wake of digitisation.' Jane Ford, Women's Writing
‘All of the chapters are deeply informed and scholarly, but also readable and accessible.’ Martin Dubois, Tennyson Research Bulletin
Product details
April 2019Hardback
9781107182479
332 pages
235 × 156 × 19 mm
0.66kg
8 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of publications and events, compiled by Sofia Prado Huggins
- 1. Introduction Linda K. Hughes
- Part I. Form and the Senses:
- 2. Genres Monique R. Morgan
- 3. Prosody Meredith Martin
- 4. Haunted by voice Elizabeth Helsinger
- 5. Floating worlds: wood engraving and women's poetry Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
- 6. Embodiment and touch Jason R. Rudy
- Part II. Women's Poetry in the World:
- 7. Publishing and reception Alexis Easley
- 8. Transatlanticism, transnationality, and cosmopolitanism Alison Chapman
- 9. Dialect, region, class, work Kirstie Blair
- 10. Politics, protest, interventions: beyond a poetess tradition Marjorie Stone
- 11. Religion and spirituality Charles Laporte
- Part III. Nurturance and Contested Naturalness:
- 12. Children's poetry Laurie Langbauer and Beverly Taylor
- 13. Marriage, motherhood, and domesticity Emily Harrington
- 14. Sexuality Jill Ehnenn
- 15. Poets of style: poetries of asceticism and excess Ana Parejo Vadillo
- Part IV. Reading Victorian Women's Poetry:
- 16. Distant reading and Victorian women's poetry Natalie M. Houston
- Afterword. Nineteenth-century women's poetry in the field of vision Isobel Armstrong
- Further reading
- Appendix. Poets' biographies.
