The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

by Tricia Lootens

Book Overview

The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"--one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069119677X
• ISBN13: 9780691196770
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"