Chronology of publications and events, compiled by Sofia Prado Huggins -- Introduction / Linda K. Hughes -- Part I. Form and the senses. Genres / Monique R. Morgan -- Prosody / Meredith Martin -- Haunted by voice / Elizabeth Helsinger -- Floating worlds: wood engraving and women's poetry / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- Embodiment and touch / Jason R. Rudy -- Part II. Women's poetry in the world. Publishing and reception / Alexis Easley -- Transatlanticism, transnationality, and cosmopolitanism / Alison Chapman -- Dialect, region, class, work / Kirstie Blair -- Politics, protest, interventions: beyond a poetess tradition / Marjorie Stone -- Religion and spirituality / Charles Laporte -- Part III. Nurturance and contested naturalness. Children's poetry / Laurie Langbauer and Beverly Taylor -- Marriage, motherhood, and domesticity / Emily Harrington -- Sexuality / Jill Ehnenn -- Poets of style: poetries of asceticism and excess / Ana Parejo Vadillo -- Part IV. Reading Victorian women's poetry. 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.
Summary:
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.
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