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... the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available."" -Spokeswoman Review [The essays] form a satisfying whole, stunningly enlightening, important for literature and women's studies.... "" -Library Journal The essays in this landmark volume highlight the achievements of ""Shakespeare's sisters,"" including Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and others.

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Author:   Sandra M. Gilbert ,  Susan Gubar
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780253202635

ISBN 10:   0253202639
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   22 February 1981
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsSandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Introduction: Gender, Creativity, and the Woman PoetI. A Lonesome Glee -Poets before 18001. Catherine F. Smith, Jane Lead: Mysticism and the Woman Cloathed with the Sun2. Wendy Martin, Anne Bradstreet's Poetry: A Study of Subversive Piety3. Katharine Rogers, Anne Finch, Countess of Winshilsea: An Augustan Woman PoetII. Titanic Opera -Nineteenth-Century Poets4. Nina Auerbach, This Changeful Life: Emily Bronte's Anti-Romance5. Helen Cooper, Working into Light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning6. Dolores Rosenblum, Christina Rossetti: The Inward Pose7. Adrienne Rich, Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson8. Albert Gelpi, Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The Dilemma of the Woman Poet in America9. Terence Diggory, Armored Women, Naked Men: Dickinson, Whitman and Their SuccessorsIII. The Silver Reticence -Modernists10. Jeanne Kammer, The Art of Silence and the Forms of Women's Poetry11. Gloria T. Hull, Afro-American Women Poets: A Bio-Critical Survey12. Jane Stanbrough, Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Language of Vulnerability13. Susan Gubar, The Echoing Spell of H.D.'s TrilogyIV. The Difference-Made Me Bold -Contemporary Poets14. Alicia Ostriker, May Swenson and the Shapes of Speculation15. Hortense J. Spillers, Gwendolyn the Terrible: Propositions on Eleven Poems16. Sandra M. Gilbert, A Fine, White Flying Myth: The Life/Work of Sylvia Plath17. Suzanne Juhasz, Seeking the Exit of the Home: Poetry and Salvation in the Career of Anne Sexton18. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, A Common Language: The American Woman Poet19. Rachel Blau Duplessis, The Critique of Consciousness and Myth in Levertov, Rich, and RukeyserSelected BibliographyNotesAbout the Authors

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... the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available. oSpokeswoman Review [The essays] form a satisfying whole, stunningly enlightening, important for literature and women's studies... oLibrary Journal

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