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I'le to My Self, and to My Muse Be True (Munsteraner Monographien Zur Englischen
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I'le to My Self, and to My Muse Be True (Munsteraner Monographien Zur Englischen Literatur / Munster Monographs on English Literature) Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Kirsten Juhas


From the publisher

In their verse, many British women composing poetry in the long eighteenth century wrote about and reflected on the very process of writing itself. In doing so, they often imitated and adapted specific poetic topoi, motifs, and generic patterns established by their male predecessors and peers including, among others, Homer, Ovid, and Juvenal, Dryden, Pope, and Swift. In exploring the phallic connotations of 'pen and ink', in invoking the assistance of a personal muse, in writing sharp and effective 'self-satires', and in identifying themselves with Philomela, the mythological persona of the nightingale, women like Anne Finch, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Dixon, Mary Leapor, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith fashioned and authorized themselves as (female) poets.

Details

  • Title I'le to My Self, and to My Muse Be True (Munsteraner Monographien Zur Englischen Literatur / Munster Monographs on English Literature)
  • Author Kirsten Juhas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Publisher Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • Date 2008-08
  • ISBN 9783631581421
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine

About the author

The Author: Kirsten Juhas studied English language and literature, German language and literature, and Cultural Studies at the Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt, Mnster. From 1998 to 2003, she worked as a Research Assistant at the English Department as well as at the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies. She submitted her doctoral dissertation to the University's Faculty of Arts in 2007.