Edited By Barbara Garlick. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry (Costerus NS 140) (Costerus NS)

Tradition and the poetics of self in nineteenth century women's poetry

Garlick, Barbara

Amsterdam ; New York: Rodopi

Rodopi, Editions

Brill/rodopi

Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495, Leiden, 2002

Netherlands, Netherlands

September 15, 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Tradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or whether Postmodernism makes tradition meaningless. By contrast the very existence of a specifically female tradition is still an urgent subject of debate, and it is clear that many nineteenth-century women writers were troubled in their search for literary foremothers. This autobiographical impetus can be located in the work of each of the poets discussed in Tradition and the Poetics of Self Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Bowles Southey, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. An exploration of the self, either in the abstract or in a more closely personal sense, appears in a concern with the craft of poetry and the role of the poet, in a teasing out of language as a marker of a personal encounter with the world, in an adventurous play with genre and a rewriting of myth, and in a bold confrontation with received notions of a woman's place. Adventurousness marks the work of each of these poets and is a central focus of these essays."--BOOK COVER

xi, 199 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

2024-07-01