How Long to Read Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860

How Long Does it Take to Read Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 by Claire Knowles

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Description

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with critical hostility by a literary culture that valorised sincerity. This sets the stage for Charlotte Smith, who pioneers an autobiographical approach to poetic production that places increased emphasis on the connection between the poet's physical body and her body of work. Knowles shows the poets Susan Evance, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning advancing Smith's poetic strategy as they seek to elicit a powerful sympathetic response from readers by highlighting a connection between their actual suffering and the production of poetry. From this environment, a specific tradition in female poetry arises that is identifiable in the work of twentieth-century writers like Sylvia Plath and continues to pertain today. Alongside this new understanding of poetic tradition, Knowles provides an innovative account of the central role of women writers to an emergent late eighteenth-century mass literary culture and traces a crucial discursive shift that takes place in poetic production during this period. She argues that the movement away from the passionate discourse of sensibility in the late eighteenth century to the more contained rhetoric of sentimentality in the early nineteenth had an enormous effect, not only on female poets but also on British literary culture as a whole.

How long is Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860?

Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 by Claire Knowles is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 aloud.

What Reading Level is Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860?

Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860 is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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