An invaluable and detailed critical analysis and record of a lively but undervalued literary community.

Informationen zum Autor Jane Dowson is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University. Alice Entwistle is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England! Bristol. Klappentext A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a detailed evaluative documentary record of the publications! activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. Part literary history! part critical analysis! this comprehensive survey is organised into three historical periods (1900 1945! 1945 1980 and 1980 2000)! each part introduced by a comprehensive overview in which the emerging names are mapped against cultural! literary and poetic events and trends. Individual essays reflect and stimulate continuing debates about the nature of women's poetry and cover a range of canonical and lesser-known! but significant! poets. They offer new critical approaches to reading poems that engage with! for example! war! domesticity! modernism! linguistic innovation! place! the dramatic monologue! postmodernism and the lyric. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for scholars and students of British poetry and women's writing. Zusammenfassung A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a record and analysis of the publications! activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for both scholars and students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction ; Part I. 1900-45: Overview; 1. Lyrical androgyny: Alice Meynell, Frances Cornford, Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Daryush; 2. A public voice: war, class and women's rights; 3. Modernism, memory and masking: Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell; 4. 'I will put myself, and everything I see, upon the page': Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue; Part II. 1945-80: Overview; 5. Stevie Smith; 6. The post-war generation and the paradox of home; 7. The poetry of consciousness-raising; 8. Disruptive lyrics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley; Part III. 1980-2000: Overview; 9. 'These parts': identity and place; 10. Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others; 11. Postmodern transformations: science and myth; 12. The renovated lyric: from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation....

Klappentext

A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a detailed evaluative documentary record of the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. Part literary history, part critical analysis, this comprehensive survey is organised into three historical periods (1900-45, 1945-80 and 1980-2000), each part introduced by a comprehensive overview in which the emerging names are mapped against cultural, literary and poetic events and trends. Individual essays reflect and stimulate continuing debates about the nature of women's poetry and cover a range of canonical and lesser-known, but significant, poets. They offer critical approaches to reading poems that engage with, for example, war, domesticity, modernism, linguistic innovation, place, the dramatic monologue, postmodernism and the lyric. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for scholars and students of British poetry and women's writing.

Zusammenfassung
A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a record and analysis of the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for both scholars and students.

Inhalt

Chronology; Introduction ; Part I. 1900-45: Overview; 1. Lyrical androgyny: Alice Meynell, Frances Cornford, Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Daryush; 2. A public voice: war, class and women's rights; 3. Modernism, memory and masking: Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell; 4. 'I will put myself, and everything I see, upon the page': Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue; Part II. 1945-80: Overview; 5. Stevie Smith; 6. The post-war generation and the paradox of home; 7. The poetry of consciousness-raising; 8. Disruptive lyrics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley; Part III. 1980-2000: Overview; 9. 'These parts': identity and place; 10. Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others; 11. Postmodern transformations: science and myth; 12. The renovated lyric: from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation.