Women's Poetry

Jo Gill

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2007

Women's Poetry

Jo Gill

In the series Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629930

Overview
Contents

About this book

This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe.

Women's Poetry offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices, and students are encouraged to think about women's poetry in the light of debates about race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and regional and national identity. The book opens with a chronology followed by a comprehensive Introduction which outlines various approaches to reading women's poetry. Seven chapters follow, and a Conclusion and section of useful resources close the book.

Key Features

Wide-ranging and flexible in scope, giving detailed consideration to widely-taught poets, texts, periods and issues
Introduces themes, questions and perspectives applicable to the work of other less familiar writers
Encourages informed discussion of the difficulties of defining a discrete genre of 'women's poetry'
Offers valuable introductory and supplementary guidance for students
Discusses in detail poems by Margaret Cavendish, Anne Bradstreet, Sara Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Edith Sitwell, Amy Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ruth Fainlight, Grace Nicholls, Eavan Boland, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy.

"

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Chronology Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
Chapter 1 Self-Reflexivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2 Performance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 3 Private Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 4 Embodied Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5 Public Speech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 6 Poetry and Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Chapter 7 Experimentation and Form Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Student Resources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: September 13, 2007
ISBN: 9780748629930