Women's Poetry, Late Romantic To Late Victorian Gender and Genre, 1830-1900

This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth-century and Enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage are themes of the collection, which includes discussion of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearslep, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.

Isobel Armstrong is Professor of English at Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Virginia Blain is Associate Professor of English at Macquarie University, Sydney.