Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre

"Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural" study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature).

This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions.

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