"I'le to My Self, and to My Muse Be True" : Strategies of Self-Authorization in Eighteenth-Century Women Poetry. Dissertationsschrift (Münsteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur / Münster Monographs on English Literature .32) （2008. 318 S. 210 mm）

Juhas, Kirsten

PETER LANG（2008発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 313 p.
• 言語 ENG,ENG
• 商品コード 9783631581421

Full Description

In their verse, many British women composing poetry in the long eighteenth century wrote about and reflected on the very process of writing itself. In doing so, they often imitated and adapted specific poetic topoi, motifs, and generic patterns established by their male predecessors and peers including, among others, Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. In exploring the phallic connotations of 'pen and ink', in invoking the assistance of a personal muse, in writing sharp and effective 'self-satires', and in identifying themselves with Philomela, the mythological persona of the nightingale, women like Anne Finch, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Dixon, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith fashioned and authorized themselves as (female) poets.

Contents

Contents: The Rights of Woman: Anne Finch, «The Introduction» - Making Atonements: Laetitia Pilkington, «Carte Blanche» - A Possessive Guest: Jane Barker, «To My Muse» - Of Bubbles and Verse: Anna Letitia Barbauld, «Washing-Day» - The Broken Petticoat: Sarah Dixon, «The Slattern» - Portrait of a Madwoman: Mary Leapor, «Mira's Picture» - Out of Reach: Anne Finch, «To the Nightingale» - Sighing and Singing: Charlotte Smith, «To a Nightingale».