Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart

by Angela Leighton

Book Overview

This book recovers and explores an important tradition of nineteenth-century women's poetry from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. Angela Leighton not only discusses the work of neglected poets such as Augusta Webster and "Michael Field," but also charts the development of women's poetry from sentimentalism of Hemans and L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) to the various strategies of self-displacement employed by the best of the Victorians, especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914272
• ISBN13: 9780813914275
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher