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Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the
rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such
as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti,
and the subsequent developments as critics use a range of modern
theoretical approaches to understand and promote the work of these
non-canonical and marginalised poets. While the essays chosen for
this volume focus on these three major figures, work is also
included on less well-known poets who have only recently been
brought into critical prominence. The introduction clarifies for
the reader the themes, problems and preoccupations that inform the
criticism and provides a useful guide to the debates surrounding
poetry and feminism, investigating such questions as, how feminist
are these poems, and does a women s tradition really exist? The
advantages and disadvantages of applying different critical
approaches, such as psychoanalytic and historicist, to the
understanding of this period and genre are also fully explored.
In her reappraisal of canonical works such as Black Beauty,
Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit, Tess Cosslett
traces how nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal
intersected with, or left their mark on, the venerable genre of the
animal story written for children. Effortlessly applying a range of
critical approaches, from Bakhtinian ideas of the carnivalesque to
feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical theory, she raises
important questions about the construction of the child reader, the
qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of
children's literature compared with literature written for adults.
Perhaps most crucially, Cosslett examines how the issues of animal
speech and animal subjectivity were managed, at a time when the
possession of language and consciousness had become a vital sign of
the difference between humans and animals. Topics of great
contemporary concern, such as the relation of the human and the
natural, masculine and feminine, child and adult, are investigated
within their nineteenth-century contexts, making this an important
book for nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature
specialists, and historians of science and childhood.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and
prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote
some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of
non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European
cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the
self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to
the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her
generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common
reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony
Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional
portraits by way of retaliation. The scholarly interest that her
work now receives is hampered by difficulty in accessing the full
range of her oeuvre: whilst her most famous fictional series, 'The
Chronicles of Carlingford', together with a handful of her tales of
the supernatural, have gone in and out of print in recent years,
the bulk of her fiction and critical writing remains uncollected.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken.
In her reappraisal of canonical works such as Black Beauty,
Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit, Tess Cosslett
traces how nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal
intersected with, or left their mark on, the venerable genre of the
animal story written for children. Effortlessly applying a range of
critical approaches, from Bakhtinian ideas of the carnivalesque to
feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical theory, she raises
important questions about the construction of the child reader, the
qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of
children's literature compared with literature written for adults.
Perhaps most crucially, Cosslett examines how the issues of animal
speech and animal subjectivity were managed, at a time when the
possession of language and consciousness had become a vital sign of
the difference between humans and animals. Topics of great
contemporary concern, such as the relation of the human and the
natural, masculine and feminine, child and adult, are investigated
within their nineteenth-century contexts, making this an important
book for nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature
specialists, and historians of science and childhood.
Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts
the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets
such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina
Rossetti, and the subsequent developments as critics use a range of
modern theoretical approaches to understand and promote the work of
these non-canonical and marginalised poets.
While the essays chosen for this volume focus on these three major
figures, work is also included on less well-known poets who have
only recently been brought into critical prominence. The
introduction clarifies for the reader the themes, problems and
preoccupations that inform the criticism and provides a useful
guide to the debates surrounding poetry and feminism, investigating
such questions as, how feminist are these poems, and does a women s
tradition really exist? The advantages and disadvantages of
applying different critical approaches, such as psychoanalytic and
historicist, to the understanding of this period and genre are also
fully explored.
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