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Colonial Australian women poets : political voice and feminist traditions /

This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were writing in newspapers and periodicals, in colonial Australia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hansord, Katie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2021.
Colección:Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Half title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapters Int-Con
  • Introduction: Rereading Colonial Poetry
  • Australian colonial literature
  • Archival research and the digital age
  • Romanticism and its legacies
  • Print culture
  • 1. Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Anti- Slavery, Imperial Feminism and Romanticism: 1820-40
  • 'The Aboriginal Mother': Anti-slavery and Romanticism
  • Romantic women poets and anti-slavery
  • Women's Romantic tradition and the colonial context
  • Irish identity and nationalism
  • Elegiac poetics, E. B. Kennedy and gender: Women's Romanticism and emergent masculine nationalism in colonial Australia
  • 2. Mary Bailey: Hellenism, Bluestockings and the Colonial Times: 1840-50
  • Romantic Hellenism
  • Feminist discourse and Romantic women's poetry
  • Colonial newspaper poetry and British periodicals
  • Separate spheres, newspapers and reading rooms
  • 3. Caroline Leakey: The Embowered Woman and Tasmania: 1850-60
  • Tasmania and the fallen woman
  • Religion and the woman poet
  • 4. Emily Manning: Spiritualism and Periodical Print Culture: 1860-80
  • The politics of feminized religiosity
  • The domestic ideal and the woman question in occultism
  • Occultism and women's political voice
  • Periodical culture and spiritualism
  • 5. Louisa Lawson: Fin de Siècle Transnational Feminist Poetics and the Dawn: 1880-1910
  • Louisa Lawson's poetry and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics
  • Gender and the libertine
  • Divorce and the fate of women
  • Dreams and spiritualism
  • Spiritualism and erotic poetic discourse
  • The literary Dawn, print culture and socialist politics
  • Women aesthetes and 'New Woman' writers: Late Victorian literary contexts and the Dawn
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Dawn
  • End Matter
  • Appendix: Selected Poems
  • Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
  • Mary Bailey
  • Notes
  • Introduction: Rereading Colonial poetry
  • Chapter 1 Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Anti- Slavery, ImperialFeminism and Romanticism: 1820- 40
  • Chapter 2 Mary Bailey: Hellenism, Bluestockings and theColonial Times: 1840- 50
  • Chapter 3 Caroline Leakey: The Embowered Woman andTasmania: 1850- 60
  • Chapter 4 Emily Manning: Spiritualism and Periodical PrintCulture: 1860- 80
  • Chapter 5 Louisa Lawson: Fin de Siècle Transnational FeministPoetics and the Dawn: 1880- 1910
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Dawn
  • Bibliography
  • Visual Works Cited
  • Index