the cambridge companion to victorian women’s poetry TheVictorianperiodhasastrongtraditionofpoetrywrittenbywomen.Inthis Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situateVictorianwomen’spoetryinitsrelationtoprintculture,diverseidenti- ties,andaestheticandculturalissues.Thebookisinclusiveinmethod,demon- strating,forexample,thebenefitsofbothdistantandclosereadingapproaches and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti but also more than one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women’s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context.Chaptersshedlightonchildren’spoetry,domesticrelations,sexualities, andstylisticartificeandconcludebylookingathowwomenpoetsplacedtheir publishedpoemsandhowwecan“place”Victorianwomenpoetstoday. LindaK.HughesisAddieLevyProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatTexasChristian University.SheistheauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoVictorianPoetry (Cambridge, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters(2005),co-authorofTheVictorianSerialandVictorianPublishingand Mrs.Gaskell’sWork(1999),andcoeditorofthefour-volumeFeministReader: FeministThoughtfromSapphotoSatrapi(2013). Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook. 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Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women’s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context.Chaptersshedlightonchildren’spoetry,domesticrelations,sexualities, andstylisticartificeandconcludebylookingathowwomenpoetsplacedtheir publishedpoemsandhowwecan“place”Victorianwomenpoetstoday. LindaK.HughesisAddieLevyProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatTexasChristian University.SheistheauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoVictorianPoetry (Cambridge, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters(2005),co-authorofTheVictorianSerialandVictorianPublishingand Mrs.Gaskell’sWork(1999),andcoeditorofthefour-volumeFeministReader: FeministThoughtfromSapphotoSatrapi(2013). Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook. 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ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107182479 doi:10.1017/9781316856543 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Hughes,LindaK.,editor. title:TheCambridgecompaniontoVictorianwomen’spoetry/editedbyLindaK. 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(cid:19)(cid:6)(cid:12)(cid:11)(cid:17)(cid:10)(cid:8)(cid:7)(cid:1)(cid:15)(cid:14)(cid:12)(cid:11)(cid:14)(cid:8)(cid:1)(cid:6)(cid:21)(cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:5)(cid:13)(cid:6)(cid:16)(cid:11)(cid:7)(cid:9)(cid:8)(cid:1)(cid:4)(cid:14)(cid:11)(cid:20)(cid:8)(cid:16)(cid:17)(cid:11)(cid:18)(cid:21)(cid:1) (cid:16)(cid:8)(cid:17)(cid:17) the cambridge companion to victorian women’s poetry TheVictorianperiodhasastrongtraditionofpoetrywrittenbywomen.Inthis Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutting-edge essays that situateVictorianwomen’spoetryinitsrelationtoprintculture,diverseidenti- ties,andaestheticandculturalissues.Thebookisinclusiveinmethod,demon- strating,forexample,thebenefitsofbothdistantandclosereadingapproaches and featuring major figures like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti but also more than one hundred poets altogether. Thematically arranged, the chapters deliver studies on a comprehensive array of subjects that address women’s poetry in its manifold forms and investigate its global context.Chaptersshedlightonchildren’spoetry,domesticrelations,sexualities, andstylisticartificeandconcludebylookingathowwomenpoetsplacedtheir publishedpoemsandhowwecan“place”Victorianwomenpoetstoday. LindaK.HughesisAddieLevyProfessorofEnglishLiteratureatTexasChristian University.SheistheauthorofTheCambridgeIntroductiontoVictorianPoetry (Cambridge, 2010) and Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters(2005),co-authorofTheVictorianSerialandVictorianPublishingand Mrs.Gaskell’sWork(1999),andcoeditorofthefour-volumeFeministReader: FeministThoughtfromSapphotoSatrapi(2013). Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthisbook. 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