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Louisa Siefert was a prolific poet, critic, playwright, and
novelist who published many works that were bestsellers in
nineteenth-century France. This bilingual critical edition of
Siefert’s Les Stoïques (1870) aims to restore Louisa Siefert’s
intellectual legacy while providing ample material for further
scholarship on her unique poetic voice. Siefert’s intellectual
power and aesthetic originality are especially pronounced in her
Les Stoïques, a volume that exemplifies her transdisciplinary mind
and rich sonnet practice. The more than forty poems collected here
are presented in the original French with masterful translations
into English by Norman R. Shapiro, one of the most highly regarded
English translators of French poetry. Shapiro’s inspired
translations of Siefert’s texts give readers gain a sense of her
prosodic mastery and flair as well as the way she uses poetry to
think about the relation between mind and body. In her
introduction, Adrianna M. Paliyenko reconstructs from original
archival research the reception of Les Stoïques from May 1870 to
the present, describing how many nineteenth-century readers
considered Siefert’s philosophical verse to be central to her
contribution to French poetic history and, in turn, how the
gendering of poetic expression and the canon sidelined Siefert’s
intellectual accomplishment. A monumental achievement, this book
brings the work of a major French poet to a broader audience.
Siefert’s poetic primer on the Stoic way of thinking about why
humans suffer or find serenity and joy, and other big questions of
life, will strike a chord with modern readers.
In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history:
the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women's
poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the
phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of
female authors as "feminine literature." Despite the efforts of
leading thinkers, critics, and literary historians to erase women
from the pages of literary history, Paliyenko shows how these
female poets invigorated the debate about the origins of genius and
garnered considerable recognition in their time for their
creativity and bold aesthetic ideas. This fresh account of French
women poets' contributions to literature probes the history of
their critical reception. The result is an encounter with the texts
of celebrated writers such as Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Anais
Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louisa Siefert, and Louise
Ackermann. Glimpses at the different stages of each poet's career
show that these women explicitly challenged the notion of genius as
gender specific, thus advocating for their rightful place in the
canon. A prodigious contribution to studies of nineteenth-century
French poetry, Paliyenko's book reexamines the reception of poetry
by women within and beyond its original context. This balanced and
comprehensive treatment of their work uncovers the multiple ways in
which women poets sought to define their place in history.
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