Among the many friends and colleagues, too numerous to mention, I need to extend special warm thanks and appreciation for many favors, many suggestions, and many insights over the years: Stuart Curran, Paula Feldman, Diane Long Hoeveler, Harriet Kramer Linkin, Mark Lussier, Anne Mellor, Joseph Wittreich, and Susan Wolfson. I have explored many of the problems and perceptions that are to be found in the pages that follow. This book, then, is indebted to many friends and colleagues, as well as to students with whom I have worked in courses at all levels over the years and with whom Some of the preliminary details about women and war, for example, appeared in a chapter in Philip Shaw’s collection, Romantic Wars (Ashgate, 2000) some thoughts about Scottish women writers appeared in my own introduction to Scottish Women Romantic Poets (Alexander Street Press, 2002) and some early musings on Irish women poets appeared in “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: A Different Sort of Other” (Women’s Writing 12.
Some of the results of these explorations have previously appeared, in much abbreviated fashion, in essays and articles. The result, for me, has been a wholesale rethinking of what I understand by the Romantic writing community and an appreciation of what is to be learned and gained when we reexamine from new perspectives and with new information things with which we had long been fairly confident we were familiar. Both of these activities, I have come to realize, have been dramatically and irreversibly altered by what I have learned in the process of discovering writers to whom I was never introduced in my own formal education, whose acquaintance I only made subsequently, and whose works opened up wholly new vistas on the landscape of the diverse and dynamic writing community that existed in the British Isles between the outbreak of the war with the American colonies and the accession of the youthful Queen Victoria. These issues have been central to my own scholarship for many years now, as they also have been to my teaching. Being part of this collective activity, which seems to be pursued in every instance with uncommon energy and ingenuity, has been invaluable to me as I have tried to think my way through the issues that I discuss in this book. I have long enjoyed conversations in person and in correspondence with colleagues engaged in the recovery and reassessment of Romantic-era writers, both women and men. All of our book papers are acid-free, and our jackets and covers are printed on paper with recycled content.ġ Women Writers, Radical Rhetoric, and the Public 37 2 Women Poets during the War Years 3 Women and the SonnetĤ Experimenting with Genre 5 Scottish Women Poets 6 Irish Women Poets ConclusionĪ book like this one evolves over many years, and it accumulates many debts along the way. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 41 or The Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. Women and literature-Great Britain-History-19th century. Women and literature-Great Britain-History-18th century. English poetry-18th century-History and criticism.
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