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Shakespeare's sisters : feminist essays on women poets / edited, with an introd. by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1979.Description: xxvi, 337 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0253112583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821/.009
LOC classification:
  • PS310.W64 S5
Contents:
Introduction: Gender, creativity, and the woman poet / Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar -- I. "A LONESOME GLEE" - POETS BEFORE 1800 : 1. Jane Lead: Mysticism and the woman cloathed with the sun / Catherine F. Smith -- 2. Anne Bradstreet's poetry: A study of subversive piety / Wendy Martin -- 3. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: An Augustan woman poet / Katherine Rogers. II. "TITANIC OPERA" - NINETEENTH-CENTURY POETS : 4. This changeful life: Emily Bronte's anti-romance / Nina Auerbach -- 5. Working into light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Helen Cooper -- 6. Christina Rossetti: The inward pose / Dolores Rosenblum -- 7. Vesuvius at home: The power of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich -- 8. Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The dilemma of the woman poet in America / Albert Gelpi -- 9. Armored women, naked men: Dickinson, Whitman, and their successors / Terence Diggory. III. "THE SILVER RETICENCE" - MODERNISTS : 10. The art of silence and the forms of women's poetry / Jeanne Kammer - 11. Afro-American women poets: A bio-critical survey / Gloria T. Hull -- 12. Edna St. Vincent Millay and the language of vulnerability / Jane Stanbrough -- 13. The echoing spell of H.D.'s Trilogy / Susan Gubar. IV. "THE DIFFERENCE -- MADE ME BOLD" - CONTEMPORARY POETS : 14. May Swenson and the shapes of speculation / Alicia Ostriker -- 15. Gwendolyn the Terrible: propositions on eleven poems / Hortense J. Spillers -- 16. A fine, white flying myth: the life/work of Sylvia Plath / Sandra M. Gilbert -- 17. Seeking the exit or the home: Poetry and salvation in the career of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- 18. A common language: the American woman poet / Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi -- 19. The critique of consciousness and myth in Levertov, Rich, and Rukeyser / Rachel Blau Duplessis.
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Bibliography: p. 301-314.

Introduction: Gender, creativity, and the woman poet / Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar -- I. "A LONESOME GLEE" - POETS BEFORE 1800 : 1. Jane Lead: Mysticism and the woman cloathed with the sun / Catherine F. Smith -- 2. Anne Bradstreet's poetry: A study of subversive piety / Wendy Martin -- 3. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: An Augustan woman poet / Katherine Rogers. II. "TITANIC OPERA" - NINETEENTH-CENTURY POETS : 4. This changeful life: Emily Bronte's anti-romance / Nina Auerbach -- 5. Working into light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Helen Cooper -- 6. Christina Rossetti: The inward pose / Dolores Rosenblum -- 7. Vesuvius at home: The power of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich -- 8. Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The dilemma of the woman poet in America / Albert Gelpi -- 9. Armored women, naked men: Dickinson, Whitman, and their successors / Terence Diggory. III. "THE SILVER RETICENCE" - MODERNISTS : 10. The art of silence and the forms of women's poetry / Jeanne Kammer - 11. Afro-American women poets: A bio-critical survey / Gloria T. Hull -- 12. Edna St. Vincent Millay and the language of vulnerability / Jane Stanbrough -- 13. The echoing spell of H.D.'s Trilogy / Susan Gubar. IV. "THE DIFFERENCE -- MADE ME BOLD" - CONTEMPORARY POETS : 14. May Swenson and the shapes of speculation / Alicia Ostriker -- 15. Gwendolyn the Terrible: propositions on eleven poems / Hortense J. Spillers -- 16. A fine, white flying myth: the life/work of Sylvia Plath / Sandra M. Gilbert -- 17. Seeking the exit or the home: Poetry and salvation in the career of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- 18. A common language: the American woman poet / Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi -- 19. The critique of consciousness and myth in Levertov, Rich, and Rukeyser / Rachel Blau Duplessis.

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