Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century

by Bethan Roberts

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - in multiple ways - in literary history as a work celebrated for 'making it new', yet deeply engaged with the literary past. It argues that Smith's sonnets are constituted by three intertwined concerns: with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789620171
• ISBN13: 9781789620177
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"