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Title: NETWORKING THE NATION
BRITISH AND AMERICAN WOMEN'S POETRY AND ITALY, 1840-1870
By: Alison Chapman
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0198723571
ISBN 13: 9780198723578
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 30 July, 2015
Pages: 344
Description: Networking the Nation offers a micro-history of a community of women poets in Florence in the years leading up to Unification, allowing readers to trace the larger history of the shift in women's poetry to a more public, political, and transnational voice.
Synopsis: How did nineteenth-century women's poetry shift from the poetess poetry of lyric effusion and hyper-femininity to the muscular epic of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh? Networking the Nation re-writes women's poetic traditions by demonstrating the debt that Barrett Browning's revolutionary poetics owed to a circle of American and British women poets living in Florence and campaigning in their poetry and in their salons for Italian Unification. These women poets-Isa Blagden, Elizabeth Kinney, Eliza Ogilvy, and Theodosia Garrow Trollope-formed with Barrett Browning a network of poetry, sociability, and politics, which was devoted to the mission of campaigning for Italy as an independent nation state. In their poetic experiments with the active lyric voice, in their forging of a transnational persona through the periodical press, in their salons and spiritualist seances, the women poets formed a network that attempted to assert and perform an independent unified Italy in their wor
Illustrations: 23 black-and-white halftones
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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