Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre

by Paula R. Backscheider

Book Overview

Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions.

Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801887461
• ISBN13: 9780801887468
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"