British Victorian women's periodicals : beauty, civilization, and poetry /

British Victorian women's periodicals : beauty, civilization, and poetry /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ledbetter, Kathryn.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Description:	xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Subject:	English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Journalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Poetry -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Women's periodicals, English -- History -- 19th century. Aesthetics, British -- 19th century. Aesthetics, British. English poetry. Journalism and literature. Literature publishing. Poetry -- Publishing. Women and literature. Women -- Intellectual life. Women's periodicals, English. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7688580

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ISBN:	023060126X (alk. paper) 9780230601260 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction The Necessity of Poetry in Victorian Women's Magazines
1. Representing Feminine Power and Work
2. Reluctant Prophets: Moral Themes and Exhortations
3. Encoding Beauty
4. Editors and Magazine Poets
Conclusion Why Poetry?
Notes
Works Cited
Index