Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century - Hardcover
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Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century
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...
Amelia Worsley is Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, the history of affect and emotion, the study of gender and sexuality, and the literature of slavery and abolition.
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