Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender

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This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. -- .

Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Warwick -- .

One of several new books to insist on crediting nineteenth-century minds with their due measure of sophistication. Labbe argues persuasively that this magisterial persona actively critiques Smith's own earlier poetic practice as well as her culture's fictions of identity. Noah Heringman, 2005 review of recent studies in the Nineteenth Century