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One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been the rediscovery and repositioning of women poets as vital and influential members of the Romantic literary community. This is the first volume to focus on women poets of this era and to consider how their historical reception challenges current conceptions of Romanticism. With a broad, revisionist view, the essays examine the poetry these women produced, what the poets thought about themselves and their place in the contemporary literary scene, and what the recovery of their works says about current and past theoretical frameworks.

The contributors focus their attention on such poets as Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, Mary Lamb, and Fanny Kemble and argue for a significant rethinking of Romanticism as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon. Grounding their consideration of the poets in cultural, social, intellectual, and aesthetic concerns, the authors contest the received wisdom about Romantic poetry, its authors, its themes, and its audiences. Some of the essays examine the ways in which many of the poets sought to establish stable positions and identities for themselves, while others address the changing nature over time of the reputations of these women poets.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. p. v
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. viii
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  1. Introduction: Recovering Romanticism and Women Poets
  2. Harriet Kramer Linkin, Stephen C. Behrendt
  3. pp. 1-12
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  1. Prologue
  1. Endurance and Forgetting: What the Evidence Suggests
  2. Paula R. Feldman
  3. pp. 15-22
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  1. Part One: Questioning Reception
  1. The Gap That Is Not a Gap: British Poetry by Women, 1802-1812
  2. Stephen C. Behrendt
  3. pp. 25-45
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  1. The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale
  2. Adriana Craciun
  3. pp. 46-70
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  1. "Tales of Truth?": Amelia Opie's Antislavery Poetics
  2. Roxanne Eberle
  3. pp. 71-98
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  1. Part Two: Anticipating Reception
  1. "Dost thou not know my voice?": Charlotte Smith and the Lyric's Audience
  2. Sarah M. Zimmerman
  3. pp. 101-124
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  1. "Be Good!": Acting, Reader's Theater, and Oratory in Frances Anne Kemble's Writing
  2. Catherine B. Burroughs
  3. pp. 125-143
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  1. Recuperating Romanticism in Mary Tighe's Psyche
  2. Harriet Kramer Linkin
  3. pp. 144-162
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  1. Part Three: Reconstructing Reception
  1. A "High-Minded Christian Lady": The Posthumous Reception of Anna Letitia Barbauld
  2. William McCarthy
  3. pp. 165-191
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  1. "Burst Are the Prison Bars": Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic Reputation
  2. Kathleen Hickok
  3. pp. 192-213
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  1. Felicia Hemans and the Revolving Doors of Reception
  2. Susan Wolfson
  3. pp. 214-241
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  1. Receiving the Legend, Rethinking the Writer: Letitia Landon and the Poetess Tradition
  2. Tricia Lootens
  3. pp. 242-259
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 260-284
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 285-286
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 287-296
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