1st Edition
Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 The Legacy of Charlotte Smith
By Claire Knowles
Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with... Read more
Introduction , Claire Knowles; Chapter 1 Understanding Sensibility as Performance: The Della Cruscans, Claire Knowles; Chapter 2 Performing Sincere Sensibility: Charlotte Smith, Claire Knowles; Chapter 3 The Evolution of Sensibility: Susan Evance, Claire Knowles; Chapter 4 Fame and the Limits of Sensibility: Letitia Landon, Claire Knowles; Chapter 5 Rejecting the Script of Sensibility: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Claire Knowles; Chapter 6 Conclusion, Claire Knowles;
Biography
Claire Knowles completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and is currently Lecturer in Literature at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia.
'If it is no longer controversial to declare Smith the first Romantic poet, then Knowles's study brings us significantly closer to understanding what this meant for those who followed her.' BARS Bulletin 'With its perceptive close readings of well-known poems (such as Browning’s Aurora Leigh) as well as less familiar ones, Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition is a work of cultural recovery that is a welcome addition to the feminist studies bookshelf.' The European Legacy
