The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres
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The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres
By (Author) Tricia Lootens
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
27th February 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Gender studies: women and girls
811.309
Physical Properties
Hardback
344
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
Description
The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"--one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's politica
Reviews
"It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing."--Choice
Author Bio
Tricia Lootens is associate professor of English and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization.
