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Singing by Herself : Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Title
Singing by Herself : Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century / Amelia Worsley.
ISBN
9781501776281
9781501776274
9781501776298
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (258 pages).
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Summary
"This book focuses on the lonely women of the long eighteenth century-both literary characters and poets themselves-who exploited the sense of vulnerability that loneliness entails for their poetic benefit, and in the process, changed how "loneliness" was perceived more broadly."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Online version: Worsley, Amelia. Singing by herself. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: When loneliness was new
Singing to Echo: John Milton's lady in the masque presented at Ludlow Castle
Nocturnal reveries: Anne Finch's allusive flights
Sapphic flights: Inside Alexander Pope's Grocoes
"Lonely anguish": Thomas Gray's elegiac complaints
The shells of poetry: Echoic lyric in Charloce Smith's Elegiac Sonnets
Postscript: Keats's nightingale.
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