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Van Remoortel, Marianne.

Lives of the sonnet, 1787-1895 : genre, gender and criticism / Marianne Van Remoortel. - Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011. - 204 p. ; 24 cm. - The nineteenth century series .

Includes index.

Introduction -- Invaluable commodities: sonnets in the world -- The secret life of the Della Cruscan sonnet: Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad -- The sonnet parodies of Coleridge and his circle -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets from the Portuguese and women's sonnets of the 1800s-1840s -- The inconstancy of genre: Meredith's modern love' metaphor and maternity - Rossetti's house of life and Webster's mother and daughter --Conclusion.

9780754669340 (hardback : alk. paper)


Sonnets, English--History and criticism.
English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Sex role in literature.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
English newspapers--History--19th century.
Poetics--History--19th century.
Sonnet.

PR589.S7 / V36 2011

821.0420908 / V274

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