| ĞI'le to My Self, and to My Muse Be Trueğ: Strategies of Self-Authorization in Eighteenth-Century Women Poetry Contributor(s): Real, Hermann Josef (Editor), Juhas, Kirsten (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631581424 ISBN-13: 9783631581421 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $105.07 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Series: Munster Monographs on English Literature |
| Physical Information: 318 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In their verse, many British women composing poetry in the long eighteenth century wrote about and reflected on the very process of writing itself. In doing so, they often imitated and adapted specific poetic topoi, motifs, and generic patterns established by their male predecessors and peers including, among others, Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. In exploring the phallic connotations of 'pen and ink', in invoking the assistance of a personal muse, in writing sharp and effective 'self-satires', and in identifying themselves with Philomela, the mythological persona of the nightingale, women like Anne Finch, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Dixon, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith fashioned and authorized themselves as (female) poets. |