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Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860 - The Legacy of Charlotte Smith (Hardcover, New edition)
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Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860 - The Legacy of Charlotte Smith (Hardcover, New edition)
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Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the
emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles
analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and
1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the
influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and
performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that
was met with critical hostility by a literary culture that
valorised sincerity. This sets the stage for Charlotte Smith, who
pioneers an autobiographical approach to poetic production that
places increased emphasis on the connection between the poet's
physical body and her body of work. Knowles shows the poets Susan
Evance, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
advancing Smith's poetic strategy as they seek to elicit a powerful
sympathetic response from readers by highlighting a connection
between their actual suffering and the production of poetry. From
this environment, a specific tradition in female poetry arises that
is identifiable in the work of twentieth-century writers like
Sylvia Plath and continues to pertain today. Alongside this new
understanding of poetic tradition, Knowles provides an innovative
account of the central role of women writers to an emergent late
eighteenth-century mass literary culture and traces a crucial
discursive shift that takes place in poetic production during this
period. She argues that the movement away from the passionate
discourse of sensibility in the late eighteenth century to the more
contained rhetoric of sentimentality in the early nineteenth had an
enormous effect, not only on female poets but also on British
literary culture as a whole.
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