Romanticism and women poets : opening the doors of reception / Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors.

Other author Linkin, Harriet Kramer, 1956-
Other author Behrendt, Stephen C., 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999.
Description294 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English poetry--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
English poetry--19th century. --History and criticism.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Canon (Literature)

Contents Introduction: recovering Romanticism and women poets / Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt -- Prologue. Endurance and forgetting: what the evidence suggests / Paula R. Feldman -- pt. 1. Questioning reception. The gap that is not a gap: British poetry by women, 1802-1812 / Stephen C. Behrendt. The subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale / Adriana Craciun. "Tales of truth?": Amelia Opie's antislavery poetics / Roxanne Eberle -- pt. 2. Anticipating reception. "Dost thou not know my voice?": Charlotte Smith and the lyric's audience / Sarah M. Zimmerman. "Be good!": acting, reader's theater, and oratory in Frances Anne Kemble's writing / Catherine B. Burroughs. Recuperating Romanticism in Mary Tighe's Psyche / Harriet Kramer Linkin -- pt. 3. Reconstructing reception. A "high-minded Christian lady": the posthumous reception of Anna Letitia Barbauld / William McCarthy. "Burst are the prison bars": Caroline Bowles Southey and the vicissitudes of poetic reputation / Kathleen Hickok. Felicia Hemans and the revolving doors of reception / Susan Wolfson. Receiving the legend, rethinking the writer: Letitia Landon and the poetess tradition / Tricia Lootens.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [260]-284) and index.
LCCN 98048349
ISBN0813121078 (alk. paper)