Charlotte Smith
Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender
By Jacqueline Labbe
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8321-1
- Pages: 176
- Price: £16.99
- Published Date: January 2011
Description
This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender.
Reviews
One of several new books to insist on crediting nineteenth-century minds with their due measure of sophistication. Labbe argues persuasively that this magisterial persona actively critiques Smith's own earlier poetic practice as well as her culture's fictions of identity.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Embodying the author
1. The possibilities of print
2. 'Elegaic Sonnets' I: The good mother
3. 'Elegaic Sonnets' II: The woman in need
4. On the edge: Politics and the strictures of subjectivity in 'The Emigrants'
5. Locating the poet in 'Beachy Head'
Coda: Smith, poetry, Romanticism
Bibliography
Author
Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick
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