Raising the Dead: Collecting Women Poets in the Eighteenth Century

A review of Chantel M. Lavoie's Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780 (Lewisburg, 2009), a book that examines how eighteenth-century anthologies and miscellanies collected biographies of and poems by women and juxtaposed various authors' poetry and lives to alter the meaning of their work.