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Article: General Materials. (Guide to the Year's Work).
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Once again this year many of the best new general studies of Victorian poetry and culture focus on the long neglected contributions of women writers and of women's perspectives. Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, consists of eighteen essays collected mainly from the 1995 conference "Rethinking Women's Poetry 1730-1930" held at Birkbeck College. In addition to the editors, the impressive list of contributors includes Cheryl Walker, Yopie Prins, Linda Peterson, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Edward Marx, Tricia Lootens, Kathleen Hickok, and other prominent scholars, and covers a range of topics ...