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Apr 4, 2022 · The representation of women in 19th-century poetry seems to be working within the same ideological frameworks that the time period affords it. Whether it be male or female writers, the name of the game continues to be the same and continues to restrain women as tightly as perhaps the corset did.
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The Victorian Era. An introduction to a period of seismic social change and poetic expansion. “The sea is calm tonight,” observes the somber speaker of Matthew Arnold’s “ Dover Beach ” (1867), listening to “the grating roar / Of pebbles” at the shore, “The eternal note of sadness” over the waters. In Arnold’s mid-19th ...
Apr 11, 2007 · Many women wrote poetry despite the many obstacles, and anthologies and journals of women's poetry encouraged a distinctive conversation between female poets (Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology, p. xxxii). Isobel Armstrong also claims women used 'expressive' language to represent their emotions and experiences, and the representational symbols on the page were paradoxically both a means of ...
SOURCE: Showalter, Elaine. "The Female Tradition." In A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing, pp. 3-36. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1977. In the ...
Feb 22, 2018 · Recovery of Victorian women writers has continued in 21st-century literary criticism, but with more emphasis on Victorian “antifeminist” perspectives (or “unfeminist” as Pamela Gilbert refers to these perspectives in her Oxford Bibliographies entry about Gender). With the rise of fourth-wave feminism, defined primarily by its ability to ...
Feb 18, 2021 · When discussing nineteenth-century American women poets, the term 'reticence' has been used, almost exclusively, by critics since the 1980s, to refer to poetic strategies that resulted from 'psychic conflict and anxiety' [1] : women's literary articulation was suppressed by the patriarchal system, and society demanded reticence in writing by women (e.g. elimination of anger, sexual feelings ...
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Shown below are two poems over 150 years apart that demonstrate self-awareness of womanhood within their societies. The first, “An Appeal to Women” by Sarah Louisa Forten – a Black abolitionist and feminist who co-founded an anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator – calls for women of all races to work together to abolish slavery.
