| Verfasst von: | Worsley, Amelia [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Singing by herself |
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| Titelzusatz: | lonely poets in the long eighteenth century |
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| Verf.angabe: | Amelia Worsley |
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| Verlagsort: | Ithaca ; London |
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| Verlag: | Cornell University Press |
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| Jahr: | 2024 |
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| Umfang: | xiii, 240 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Fussnoten: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 209-226 |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-7627-4 |
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| Abstract: | Singing by Herself reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. Many of the earliest records of the terms "lonely" and "loneliness" in British literature describe solitaries whose songs positioned them within the tradition of female complaint. Amelia Worsley shows how these feminized solitaries, for whom loneliness was both a space of danger and a space of productive retreat, helped to make loneliness attractive to future lonely poets, despite the sense of suspicion it evoked. Although loneliness today is often associated with states of atomized interiority, soliloquy, and self-enclosure, this study of eighteenth-century poetry disrupts the presumed association between isolation, singular speech, and bounded models of poetic subjectivity. In five chapters focused on lonely poet figures in the works of John Milton, Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and Charlotte Smith-which also take account of the wider eighteenth-century fascination with literary loneliness-Singing by Herself shows how poets increasingly associated the new literary mode of being alone with states of disembodiment, dispersal, and echoic self-doubling. Seemingly solitary lonely voices often dissolve into polyvocal, allusive community, Worsley argues, when in dialogue with each other and also with classical figures of feminized lament such as Sappho, Echo, and Philomela.The book's provocative reflections on lyric mean that it will have a broad appeal to scholars interested in the history of poetry and poetics, as well as to those who study the literary history of gender, affect, and emotion. |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313530313737363237347C7C434F50.jpg?sq=6 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (s)Englisch / (s)Lyrik / (s)Einsamkeit <Motiv> / (s)Frau <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Worsley, Amelia: Singing by herself. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024 |(DLC)2023045658 |
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| RVK-Notation: | HK 1181 |
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| | HK 1091 |
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| Sach-SW: | Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen |
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| | Gender studies: women |
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| | General & world history |
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| | Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte |
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| | HIS058000 |
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| | HISTORY / World |
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| | Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert |
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| | LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry |
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| | LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors |
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| | Literary studies: poetry & poets |
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| | Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter |
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| | Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 |
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| | POETRY / General |
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| | Poetry |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies |
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| Zeit-SW: | 18. Jahrhundert (ca. 1700 bis ca. 1799) |
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| | c 1700 to c 1800 |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 186958001X |
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