"Hearing 18th-Century Occasional Poetry by and about Women" by Elizabeth Kraft

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Article Title

Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry by and about Women: Swift and Barbauld

Authors

Elizabeth Kraft, University of GeorgiaFollow

Author Biography

Elizabeth Kraft, a Professor of English at the University of Georgia, is the co-editor (with William McCarthy) of The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld (University of Georgia Press, 1994) and Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose (Broadview Press, 2001). She is also the editor of Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher (University Press of Kentucky, 1999). She has authored three critical monographs: Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 1992), Laurence Sterne Revisited (Twayne, 1996), and Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814: In the Voice of Our Biblical Mothers (Ashgate, 2008).

Keywords

Anna Letitia Barbauld, Esther Johnson, ethics, gender, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Priestley, media, occasional poems, poetry, reading aloud, Stella

Recommended Citation

Kraft, Elizabeth (2011) "Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry by and about Women: Swift and Barbauld," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol. 1 : Iss. 1 , Article 6.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.1.1.5
Available at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol1/iss1/6

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