Reconceiving Nature
Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
Published on 28. March 2019
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-8262-2187-2 (ISBN)
Description
Glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later Victorian period. Patricia Murphy examines the work of six "proto-ecofeminist" poets - Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington - who contested the exploitation of the natural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is inferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead "reconstructed" nature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Missouri
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8262-2187-2 (9780826221872)
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Patricia Murphy is Professor Emerita of English at Missouri Southern State University and the author of four books, including The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress and In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women (both University of Missouri Press) and Time Is of the Essence: Temporality, Gender, and the New Woman (SUNY Press). She lives in Joplin, Missouri.