«I’le to My Self, and to My Muse Be True» : Strategies of Self-Authorization in Eighteenth-Century Women Poetry
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Paperback / Softback
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Muensteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur / Muenster Monographs on English Literature
ISBN-10
3631581424
ISBN-13
9783631581421
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
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DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 20th, 2008
Print length
318 Pages
Weight
424 grams
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15.00 x 22.10 x 1.90 cms
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Gender studies: women
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In their verse, many British women composing poetry in the long eighteenth century wrote about and reflected on the very process of writing itself. In doing so, they often imitated and adapted specific poetic topoi, motifs, and generic patterns established by their male predecessors and peers including, among others, Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. In exploring the phallic connotations of ‘pen and ink’, in invoking the assistance of a personal muse, in writing sharp and effective ‘self-satires’, and in identifying themselves with Philomela, the mythological persona of the nightingale, women like Anne Finch, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Dixon, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith fashioned and authorized themselves as (female) poets.
In their verse, many British women composing poetry in the long eighteenth century wrote about and reflected on the very process of writing itself. In doing so, they often imitated and adapted specific poetic topoi, motifs, and generic patterns established by their male predecessors and peers including, among others, Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. In exploring the phallic connotations of ‘pen and ink’, in invoking the assistance of a personal muse, in writing sharp and effective ‘self-satires’, and in identifying themselves with Philomela, the mythological persona of the nightingale, women like Anne Finch, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Dixon, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith fashioned and authorized themselves as (female) poets.
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