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- Title
Introduction: The Victorian Poetess Debates: Patterns, Paradoxes, Provocations.
- Authors
Stone, Marjorie
- Abstract
"It is essential to remember that Emily Dickinson was a poetess", Elsa Greene bravely asserted in 1972, despite modern readers being "offended" by this "reminder", and despite Greene's acknowledgement that "[m]erely in naming the poetess, a critic steps off into uncharted territory" (63-64). Increasingly capitalized in this amassing scholarship, "Poetess" acquired a complex and often positive valence, even when the term's gender-policing functions were acknowledged.[1] Nevertheless, approaches to the poetess remained vigorously contested within modern feminist criticism, much as the word itself was an increasingly "vexed term" in the late nineteenth century ([7]). Linda K. Hughes uncovers the "poetess prehistory of Michael Field", complicating binaries between poetess verse and a more sexually transgressive modernist poetics.
- Subjects
WOMEN poets; POETICS; PARADOX; COSMOPOLITANISM
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2022.a900610