Table of Contents: Romanticism and women poets:

Other Authors:	Linkin, Harriet Kramer ,, Behrendt, Stephen C. ,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Lexington]: University Press of Kentucky, [c1999]
Subjects:	English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism Feminism and literature > History > 19th century > Great Britain Women and literature > History > 19th century > Great Britain English poetry > History and criticism > 19th century Romanticism > Great Britain

Table of 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.