Females and Footnotes: Excavating the Genre of Eighteenth-Century Women’s Scholarly Verse
Throughout the eighteenth century, the genre of women’s poetry heavily annotated with editorializing commentary (a genre I term “scholarly verse”) became increasingly prevalent. Such poetry presents an ironic reversal of conventions of gender and authority by incorporating the literal margins of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Sprog: | English |
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Aphra Behn Society
2016-12-01
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| Serier: | ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 |
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| Online adgang: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol6/iss2/1/ |
| Summary: | Throughout the eighteenth century, the genre of women’s poetry heavily annotated with editorializing commentary (a genre I term “scholarly verse”) became increasingly prevalent. Such poetry presents an ironic reversal of conventions of gender and authority by incorporating the literal margins of the page: the female voice commands the majority of the page, while the masculine voice of empiricism, authority, and scholarly reason is pushed to the margins. This essay offers a distant reading of the range of annotations women poets provided, in order to begin new conversations about the ways women’s poetry served as a site of and structure for intellectual exploration in the eighteenth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2157-7129 2157-7129 |