Victorian women poets : Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti / edited by Joseph Bristow
1995, First Edition. Basingstoke : Macmillan. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432411
ISBN: 0333608038
Physical description; ix, 256 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction / Joseph Bristow -- 1. 'A Music of Thine Own': Women's Poetry / Isobel Armstrong -- 2. The Damsel, the Knight, and the Victorian Woman Poet / Dorothy Mermin -- 3. Emily Bronte / Margaret Homans -- 4. 'Art's A Service': Social Wound, Sexual Politics, and Aurora Leigh / Deirdre David -- 5. From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento / Sandra M. Gilbert -- 6. The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti / Jerome J. McGann -- 7. Consumer Power and the Utopia of Desire: Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' / Elizabeth K. Helsinger -- 8. 'Because men made the laws': The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet / Angela Leighton. Subjects; Brontë, Emily 1818-1848. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861. Rossetti, Christina 1830-1894. Bell, Ellis 1818-1848. English poetry. English poetry Women authors. Women and literature.
Price: €65.00