Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

by Amy Billone

In Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet, Amy Christine Billone analyzes the bond between lyric poetry and silence in women's sonnets ranging from the late eighteenth-century works of Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and Anna Maria Smallpiece to Victorian texts by Elizabeth Barrett, Christina Rossetti, Isabella Southern, and other, lesser-known female poets. Although scholars acknowledge that women initiated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814210422
• ISBN13: 9780814210420
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"