Isobel Armstrong

Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment: the Making of a Canon, 1730-1820 Isobel Armstrong

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Isobel Armstrong is Professor of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. Virginia Blain is Associate Professor of English at Macquarie University in Sydney. Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors * Introduction--Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain * Part I: The Sensuous Eighteenth Century: Minds and Bodies * Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets--Margaret Ann Doody * All Passion Extinguish'd: The Case of Mary Chandler (1687-1745)--David Shuttleton * A Dialogue: Elizabeth Carter's Passion for the Female Mind--Lisa A. Freeman * Part II: The Feminist Political Project * Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and 'Old Satirical Codes'--Isobel Grundy * The Female Poet and the Poetess: Two Traditions of British Women's Poetry 1780-1830--Anne K. Mellor * The Politics of Vision: Anna Barbauld's "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"--Maggie Favretti * Part III: Protest and Patronage * "This Muse-born Wonder: " The Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton--Mary Waldron * The Maid and the Minister's Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York--Roger Sales * Part IV: Remaking Genres and Subjectivities * Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self--Stuart Curran * Homosocial Women: Martha Sansom, Constantia Grierson, Mary Leapor and Georgic Verse Epistle--Kate Lilley * Charlotte Smith's "Elegiac Sonnets: " Losses and Gains--Judith Hawley * Finale: A Female Canon? * Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology--Elizabeth Eger * IndexPublisher Marketing: A dozen critical essays affirm the significance of women's poetry of the late Enlightenment and early Romantic periods. Counter to the conventional wisdom, poets such as Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Marie Williams, Joanna Baillie, and Charlotte Smith are shown to have been as adventuresome in t Contributor Bio:  Armstrong, Isobel Abou the Editors Isobel Armstrong is Professor of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. Joseph Bristow is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of York and currently holds the position of Senior External Research Fellow at Stanford University. Catharine Sharrock is Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia. Contributor Bio:  Blain, Virginia Blain is Associate Professor of English at Macquarie University in Sydney.