Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender

by Jacqueline Labbe

Overview

This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719083211
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Embodying the author
1. The possibilities of print
2. 'Elegaic Sonnets' I: The good mother
3. 'Elegaic Sonnets' II: The woman in need
4. On the edge: Politics and the strictures of subjectivity in 'The Emigrants'
5. Locating the poet in 'Beachy Head'
Coda: Smith, poetry, Romanticism
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

One of several new books to insist on crediting nineteenth-century minds with their due measure of sophistication. Labbe argues persuasively that this magisterial persona actively critiques Smith's own earlier poetic practice as well as her culture's fictions of identity.

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