Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Knowles, Claire

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper. In doing so, this study offers the first account of the feminization of the fashionable newspaper and of popular literary culture in the final years of the eighteenth century. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-10-03

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031372698

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37267-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 210