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Choir Invisible
College Breakfast Party
Complete Shorter Poetry
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Ego Ism
Eliot's Choice
Eliot's Concept
Eliot's Epigraphs
Eliot's Notes
Eliot's Poetry
Eliot's Prose
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Eliot’s Choice
Eliot’s Concept
Eliot’s Epigraphs
Eliot’s Notes
Eliot’s Poetry
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feminist literary analysis
gender studies
gypsy
invisible
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loved
Maiden Wail
Nineteenth Century British Poetry
Nineteenth Century Women Poets
nineteenth-century poetry
Oxford Reader's Companion
Oxford Reader’s Companion
Poetic Epigraphs
poetry
religious humanism
Sara Hennell
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Spanish Gypsy
Susan Brown
sympathy in Victorian literature
Victorian literary criticism
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Women Poets
Women Poets
women's authorship
Women's Poetry
Women’s Poetry
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472437938
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her in-depth examination of Eliot’s poetry and her role as poetess. Williams argues that even more clearly than her fiction, Eliot’s poetry reveals the development of her belief in sympathy as a replacement for orthodox religious views. With knowledge of the Bible and a firm understanding of society’s expectations for female authorship, Eliot consciously participated in a tradition of women poets who relied on feminine piety and poetry to help refine society through compassion and fellow-feeling. Williams examines Eliot’s poetry in relationship to her gender and sexual politics and her shifting religious beliefs, showing that Eliot’s views on gender and religion informed her adoption of the poetess persona. By taking into account Eliot’s poetess treatment of community and motherhood, Williams suggests, readers come to view her not only as a writer of fiction, an intellectual, and a social commentator, but also as a woman who longed to nurture, participate in, and foster human relationships.
Wendy Williams is Visiting Assistant Professor in the John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University, USA.
