Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper

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.

Author: Claire Knowles
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/16/2023
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9783031372667
ISBN10: 3031372662
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 18th Century
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory