This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of
eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in
which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in
British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres
and traditions.
Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R.
Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses
to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in
relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes
that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often
adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from
traditional forms.
Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry
is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within
chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives
particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious
poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the
continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly
antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in
elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith
as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a
Romantic-era poet.
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