Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender
By (Author) Jacqueline Labbe
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
4th January 2011
United Kingdom
Paperback
176
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
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. -- .
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. Noah Heringman, 2005 review of recent studies in the Nineteenth Century
Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick