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Imprint:	London ; New York : Longman, 1996.
Description:	x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Longman critical readers Longman critical readers.
Subject:	English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English poetry. English poetry -- Women authors. Women and literature. Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2557254

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Other authors / contributors:	Cosslett, Tess.
ISBN:	0582276497 9780582276499 0582276500 9780582276505
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index. Also issued online.
Summary:	One of the triumphs of feminist criticism has been to rescue major poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti from neglect. While the essays chosen for this volume focus on these three major figures, work is also included on less well-known poets who have only recently been brought into critical prominence. The introduction clarifies for the reader the themes, problems and preoccupations that inform the criticism and provides a useful guide to the debates surrounding poetry and feminism. The advantages and disadvantages of applying different critical approaches, such as psychoanalytic and historicist, to the understanding of this period and genre are also fully explored. The substantial introduction, headnotes, detailed bibliography and suggestions for further reading will make this book essential reading for students of English, Victorian and Women's Literature, and Feminist Critical Theory.
Other form:	Online version: Victorian women poets. London ; New York : Longman, 1996

Table of Contents:

General Editors Preface
Acknowlegements
Introduction,' Inner' and 'outer' readings
How feminist are these poems?
Is there a women s tradition?
Emily BrontÃ, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti
Other poets
Emily BrontÃ
1. Emily BrontÃ
2. The archetypal feminine in Emily BrontÃ 's poetry.
3. What language can utter the feeling: Identity in the Poetry of Emily BrontÃ
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. Introduction to Aurora Leigh
5. Face to Face: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and nineteenth century poetry
6. Defiled Text and Political Poetry
7. A printing women who has lost her place: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Christina Rossetti
8. 'The aesthetics of renunciation.'
9. Heroic Sisterhood in Goblin Market
10. Christina Rossetti - Diary of a Feminist Reading
11. Intertextuality: Dante, Petrarch and Christina Rossetti
12. Men sell not such in any town: exchange in Goblin Market
13. Eat me, drink me, love me", The consumable female body in Christina
Rossetti's Goblin Market

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