Böcker av Claire Knowles

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.

LIGHTS ON! A Reflective Journey By the time the sun sets on your life, you want to have made a difference. You don't want to waste a day struggling through the mire and not being able to to see the light that beckons you along your personal and professional path. You want to move forward with passion, certainty, courage and clarity. Lights On! is a spirit-lifting book that compels you forward so you can make a difference in your life. It includes: ¿ Wisdom-filled vignettes ¿ Heart-warming stories ¿ Guidance for women and women in business leadership roles ¿ Reflections on everyday life ¿ Penetrating questions ...all of which are intended to propel you forward! Lights On!

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, the author analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. She also gives an account of the central role of women writers to an emergent late eighteenth-century mass literary culture.