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Subject(s)

• Women authors, English—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Della Cruscans (English writers) [Browse]
• English poetry—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• English newspapers—Sections, columns, etc—Women [Browse]
• English newspapers—History—19th century [Browse]

Series

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]

Summary note

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper. In doing so, this study offers the first account of the feminization of the fashionable newspaper and of popular literary culture in the final years of the eighteenth century.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction : poetry, women, and the rise of the fashionable newspaper
• 2. Mary Wells, Edward Topham and the feminization of the late eighteenth century newspaper
• 3. Hannah Cowley and the Della Cruscan Star System
• 4. The Oracle and the female poet
• 5. Della Cruscanism in wartime
• 6. Stuart's Post and the reign of Mary Robinson
• 7. Charlotte Dacre, Sophia King and the Tory Post
• 8. Conclusion, Felicia Hemans, the Della Cruscans and the Great Forgetting.

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ISBN

• 3031372662
• 9783031372667

OCLC

1381294035

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