Canonicity, marginality, and the celebration of the minor.(in Victorian poetry)
From: Victorian Poetry
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Date: 12/22/2003
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Author: Najarian, James
Victorian poetry as a field tends to be among those subdisciplines least affected by theoretical and historical developments in literary study. In the eighties and early nineties, our field was certainly changed by demands to "open up" the canon. (1) Particularly with women poets, these investigations had an effect; any roster of poets from the nineteenth century now includes Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Michael Field--both in pedagogical anthologies like the ...
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