Women Poets in the Victorian Era: Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry

Women Poets in the Victorian Era: Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry
ISBN-10
147246477X
ISBN-13
9781472464774
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
2015-11-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Fabienne Moine

Description

Exploring the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine examines the work of canonical poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, that of lesser-known writers such as Mary Howitt and Eliza Cook, and the verse of non-professional poets who have received little critical attention. Moine shows that these women reconstructed the natural world in poems that raise questions about the validity and the scope of cultural representations of nature, questioning the social practices that mould and fossilise cultural identities.

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