A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry
A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry
Alice Entwistle, University of the West of England, Bristol
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USDA History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a detailed evaluative documentary record of the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. Part literary history, part critical analysis, this comprehensive survey is organised into three historical periods (1900–45, 1945–80 and 1980–2000), each part introduced by a comprehensive overview in which the emerging names are mapped against cultural, literary and poetic events and trends. Individual essays reflect and stimulate continuing debates about the nature of women's poetry and cover a range of canonical and lesser-known, but significant, poets. They offer critical approaches to reading poems that engage with, for example, war, domesticity, modernism, linguistic innovation, place, the dramatic monologue, postmodernism and the lyric. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for scholars and students of British poetry and women's writing.
- Full coverage of British women's poetry across the century
- Re-evaluates the canon of women's writing and explores its contexts
- Includes an invaluable chronology and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a commendable book and is scrupulously researched throughout. The extensive bibliograhpy alone will prove an invaluable resource to subsequent scholars." - William May, Balliol College, Oxford University
Product details
October 2009Paperback
9780521121415
404 pages
229 × 152 × 23 mm
0.59kg
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Table of Contents
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I. 1900–45: Overview
- 1. Lyrical androgyny: Alice Meynell, Frances Cornford, Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Daryush
- 2. A public voice: war, class and women's rights
- 3. Modernism, memory and masking: Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell
- 4. 'I will put myself, and everything I see, upon the page': Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue
- Part II. 1945–80: Overview
- 5. Stevie Smith
- 6. The post-war generation and the paradox of home
- 7. The poetry of consciousness-raising
- 8. Disruptive lyrics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley
- Part III. 1980–2000: Overview
- 9. 'These parts': identity and place
- 10. Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others
- 11. Postmodern transformations: science and myth
- 12. The renovated lyric: from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation.
