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Women Writers and Poetic Identity : Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson.

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as male. Her answer suggests why there were so f...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Homans, Margaret, 1952-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Collection:Princeton legacy library.
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Résumé:How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as male. Her answer suggests why there were so few great women poets in an age when most of the great novelists were women. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton U.
Description:Cover; Contents.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (273 pages)
ISBN:9781400855445
1400855446