Womens Poetry Late Romantic To Late Victorian

Download or read book Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian written by I. Armstrong and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-02-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.