Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 : The Legacy of Charlotte Smith
ISBN: 9781409409304
Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / Taylor & Francis
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Subjects: English poetry : Women authors : History and criticism.;

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Knowles analyzes the poetry of the Della Cruscans, Charlotte Smith, Susan Evance, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning in the context of a mass literary culture and the move from the discourse of sensibility to the rhetoric of sentimentality. Knowles shows that Smith pioneered an autobiographical approach to poetic production that continues today.


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