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Alice Meynell
Augusta Webster
Author_Patricia Murphy
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Century
Constance Naden
Contemporary
Culture
Ecofeminism
Ecofeminist
Ecofeminist Theory
Ecological
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L. S. Bevington
Late Victorian Period
Late-Century Literature
Literary Criticism
Literature
Mathilde Blind
Michael Field
Modernist
Murphy
Nature
Non-Canonical Writers
Patricia Murphy
Poetry
Reconceiving Nature
Scholarship
Twentieth-Century
Victorian
Women's Poetry
World
Product details
- ISBN 9780826221872
- Weight: 555g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2019
- Publisher: University of Missouri Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later Victorian period. Patricia Murphy examines the work of six “proto-ecofeminist” poets - Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington - who contested the exploitation of the natural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is inferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead “reconstructed” nature.
Patricia Murphy is Professor Emerita of English at Missouri Southern State University and the author of four books, including The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress and In Science’s Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women (both University of Missouri Press) and Time Is of the Essence: Temporality, Gender, and the New Woman (SUNY Press). She lives in Joplin, Missouri.
