{"product_id":"british-women-poets-of-the-long-eighteenth-century-an-anthology-paperback","title":"British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaula R. Backscheider\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCatherine E. Ingrassia\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme, offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers addressed, including war, ecology, friendship, religion, and the stages of life; and by the poems' more specific focus on the women's experiences as writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBackscheider and Ingrassia have selected poems that represent the best work of skilled poets, creating a wonderful mix of canonical and little-known pieces. They include the complete texts of longer poems that are abridged or omitted in other collections. Their substantial part introductions, textual notes, bibliographical information, and biographical sketches situate the poets and their writings within the cultural and political milieu in which they appeared. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo generate further scholarship on this subject, this essential anthology puts primary texts in front of students, scholars, and general readers. It fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaula R. Backscheider\u003c\/b\u003e is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eDaniel Defoe: His Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, and editor of \u003ci\u003eRevising Women: Eighteenth-Century \"Women's Fiction\" and Social Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Johns Hopkins. \u003cb\u003eCatherine E. Ingrassia \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, author of \u003ci\u003eAuthorship, Commerce, and Gender\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Pamela\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 960\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.3 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757478805792,"sku":"9780801892783","price":93.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6bd3bdb2fddfd0ed5d056618cb45b05f.webp?v=1780104043","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/british-women-poets-of-the-long-eighteenth-century-an-anthology-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}