Poetry of the New Woman

Public Concerns, Private Matters

Patricia Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 277 Seiten

2024 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-19767-3 (ISBN)

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The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities. Although New Women resist ready classification or appraisal as a monolithic body, they tended to share many of the same beliefs and objectives aimed at improving female conditions. While novels about the iconoclastic New Woman have garnered much interest in recent decades, poetry from the cultural and literary figure has received considerably less attention. Yet the very issues that propelled New Woman fiction are integral to the poetry of the fin de siècle. This book - the first in-depth account on the subject - enriches our knowledge of exceptionally gifted writers, including Mathilde Blind, M. E. Coleridge, Olive Custance, and Edith Nesbit. It focuses on their long-neglected British verse, analyzing its treatment of crucial matters on both the personal and public level to provide the attention the poetry so richly deserves.

Patricia Murphy is Professor Emerita in English at Missouri Southern State University, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Many Voices, Many Issues.- Chapter 2: The Vagaries of Marriage.- Chapter 3: The Workings of Desire.- Chapter 4: Social Responsibility for the Destitute.- Chapter 5: Grim Stories of the "Fallen Woman".- Chapter 6: Poets on Poetry.- Chapter 7: The Promise of London.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Speculating on the Future.

"Murphy's volume deals with an impressive range of poets and addresses an array of different forms and themes. Some of these poets are under-discussed and such detailed analysis is therefore greatly welcome, as in the case of Southern. ... The volume succeeds as a useful supplement to Hughes's New Woman Poets: An Anthology ... ." (Sarah Parker, Women_s Writing, November 14, 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Zusatzinfo	VII, 277 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	379 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	British and Irish Literature • Feminism and feminist theory • Literature, Gender and Sexuality • Nineteenth-Century Literature • Poetry • Victorian Literature • Women's writing
ISBN-10	3-031-19767-4 / 3031197674
ISBN-13	978-3-031-19767-3 / 9783031197673
Zustand	Neuware