The posthumous voice in women's writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
by Claire Raymond
"This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.' This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath, Raymond's study sounds out the ways that the trope of the posthumous voice succeeds in negotiating the difficult cultural space between the concept of woman's body and the production of canonical literature."--BOOK JACKET.
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American poetry, Death in literature, English fiction, Feminism in literature, History, History and criticism, Women and literature, Women authors, English fiction, women authors, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, American poetry, women authors, American poetry, history and criticism, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Mort dans la littérature, Féminisme dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPeople
Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Emily BrontePlaces
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Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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The posthumous voice in women's writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath
2006, Ashgate, Routledge
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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This book is about women writers writing Self-Elegy. That is, they write elegies for themselves as if they were already dead when they were writing-- though of course they're still alive when writing their self-elegies! The book asks why self-elegies were a popular form of writing for a few important women writers in England and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book focuses on Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, and Sylvia Plath, with some chapters on Mary Shelley's novella Matilda, and Christina Rossetti.
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