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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Main Author: Ruth Knezevich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aphra Behn Society 2016-12-01
Series:ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol6/iss2/1/