Victorian Poetry

SUSAN BROWN Edgar Allan Poe, having argued that "Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem," notoriously observed that ...

The Victorian poetess the poetess forms part of a structure of representation that both aestheti- cizes and commodifies her - in ...

SUSAN BROWN Elizabeth Landon (known as L.E.L.), claimed that she was "voted one" with Sappho when she published her second volum ...

The Victorian poetess their own titles. Hence a description of the speaker's painting precedes "Sappho's Song." It occupies more ...

SUSAN BROWN There is no necessary relation here between Eulalie's "passionate song" and her topic of "beating hearts": the conve ...

The Victorian poetess corner of the sheet which contained the three magical letters of 'L.E.L.' And all of us praised the verse, ...

SUSAN BROWN exercised moral authority in the domestic realm. In the minds of both critics and writers, poetry became rapidly fem ...

The Victorian poetess British national character. 19 In 1847, for example, Gilfillan contended: "in proportion as civilisation a ...

SUSAN BROWN participated in the "public sphere" notwithstanding their exclusion from formal political representation and commerc ...

The Victorian poetess economic and ideological advantage of allowing the author to pursue her career at home, without any obviou ...

SUSAN BROWN positions. Its contributors include Matthew Arnold, Anna Jameson, Geraldine Jewsbury, Harriet Martineau, ED. Maurice ...

The Victorian poetess V One particularly well-known Victorian poem sought to redefine the ways in which the poetess imagined her ...

SUSAN BROWN explodes the generic and thematic scope of the Victorian poetess, fusing lyric with novelistic, dramatic, satiric, a ...

The Victorian poetess (VII. 185), is accompanied by a sense of self-dissolution like "some passive broken lump of salt" (VII. 13 ...

SUSAN BROWN VI Interest in Sappho did not simply disappear. But the sense that Sappho was, as Margaret Reynolds puts it, a "fixe ...

The Victorian poetess leads off with Procter's poem "A Woman's Question" (1858), and proceeds to intersperse works by male and f ...

SUSAN BROWN continued to gather steam. It drove home its analysis of the implication of gender politics in exchange and commodif ...

The Victorian poetess canon an almost post-modern performance of identity that explores female eroticism; Stephenson pronounces ...

SUSAN BROWN marker of the vexed relationship between highly naturalized constructions of femininity, new modes of production, an ...

The Victorian poetess 17 Deborah Kennedy, "Hemans, Wordsworth, and the 'Literary Lady,'" Victorian Poetry 35 (1997), 267-85. 18 ...