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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2016-12-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-8eb5f701817f4f52b51a5312e21af7aa2022-12-21T21:00:02ZengAphra Behn SocietyABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-18302157-71292157-71292016-12-01621http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.6.2.1Females and Footnotes: Excavating the Genre of Eighteenth-Century Women’s Scholarly VerseRuth Knezevich0University of OtagoThroughout 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.http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol6/iss2/1/scholarly versewomen poetspoetrydistant readinggenderauthority |
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