This reader contains 17 new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets. Among those discussed directly are: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Michael Field, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide Anne Procter, Christina Rossetti, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. Key topics dealt with include the nature of home, the market, the fallen woman and the moral law, the mother, and the muse. An invaluable critical companion to its sister volume Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology, it provides fresh impetus to important current debates about interpretation, concerning: the use of biography, the tension between political and aesthetic readings, the question of poetic value and canonization, the conflict between old historical and new historical approaches, and the validity of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist readings. Critics represented are: Isobel Armstrong, Kathleen Blake, Susan Conley, Stevie Davies, Sandra M. Gilbert, Gill Gregory, Terrence Holt, Linda K. Hughes, Angela Katharine McGowan, A. Leighton, Tricia Lootens, Jerome J. McGann, J. Dorothy Mermin, Margaret Reynolds, Dolores Rosenblum, Chris White, and Joyce Zonana.
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Introduction. Acknowledgements. Felicia Hemans: 1. Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine 'Internal Enemies', and the Domestication of National Identity (1994): T. Lootens. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 2. From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento (1984): S. M. Gilbert. 3. The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics (1989): J. Zonana. Emily Bronte: 4. The Mother Planet (1994): S. Davies. George Eliot: 5. Armgart - George Eliot on the Woman Artist (1980): K. Blake. Adelaide Procter: 6. Adelaide Procter's 'A Legend of Provence': The Struggle for a Place: G. Gregory. Christina Rossetti: 7. Christina Rossetti's Poems (1980): J. J. McGann. 8. Christina Rossetti's Religious Poetry: Watching, Looking, Keeping Vigil (1982): D. Rosenblum. 9. 'Men sell not such in any town': Exchange in Goblin Market (1990): T. Holt. Michael Field: 10. The Tiresian Poet: M. Field. Rosamund Marriott Watson: 11. 'Fair Hymen holdeth hid a world of woes': Myth and Marriage in Poems by 'Graham R. Tomson' (Rosamund Marriott Watson) (1994): L. K. Hughes. General: 12. The Damsel, the Knight, and the Victorian Woman Poet (1986): D. Mermin. 13. 'Because men made the laws': The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet (1989): A. Leighton. 14. 'Poet's Right': Christina Rossetti as Anti-Muse: S. Conley. 15. 'A Music of Thine Own': Women's Poetry - an Expressive Tradition? (1993): I. Armstrong. 16. 'I lived for art, I lived for love': The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song: M. Reynolds. List of Contributors. Bibliography. Index.
