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Networking the Nation - British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840-1870 (Hardcover)
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Networking the Nation - British and American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840-1870 (Hardcover)
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How did nineteenth-century women's poetry shift from the poetess
poetry of lyric effusion and hyper-femininity to the muscular epic
of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh? Networking the Nation
re-writes women's poetic traditions by demonstrating the debt that
Barrett Browning's revolutionary poetics owed to a circle of
American and British women poets living in Florence and campaigning
in their poetry and in their salons for Italian Unification. These
women poets-Isa Blagden, Elizabeth Kinney, Eliza Ogilvy, and
Theodosia Garrow Trollope-formed with Barrett Browning a network of
poetry, sociability, and politics, which was devoted to the mission
of campaigning for Italy as an independent nation state. In their
poetic experiments with the active lyric voice, in their forging of
a transnational persona through the periodical press, in their
salons and spiritualist seances, the women poets formed a network
that attempted to assert and perform an independent unified Italy
in their work. Networking the Nation maps the careers of these
expatriate women poets who were based in Florence in the key years
of Risorgimento politics, racing their transnational social and
print communities, and the problematic but schismatic shift in
their poetry from the conventional sphere of the poetess. In the
fraught and thrilling engagement with their adopted nation's
revolutionary turmoil, and in their experiments with different
types of writing agency, the women poets in this book offer
revolutions of other kinds: revolutions of women's poetry and the
very act of writing.
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