Homans Women Writers and Poetic Identity

Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5544-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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 1981.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Homans, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. 1
CHAPTER I. The Masculine Tradition, pg. 12
CHAPTER II. Dorothy Wordsworth, pg. 41
CHAPTER III. Emily Brontë, pg. 104
CHAPTER IV. Emily Dickinson, pg. 162
CONCLUSION. A Feminine Tradition, pg. 215
Notes, pg. 237
Index, pg. 253