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Charlotte Smith : romanticism, poetry, and the culture of gender

"Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender argues that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. Offering a thorough and comprehensive reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, Labbe demonstrates that Smith is both more canny about the attractions of gender than has previously been recognised, and more experimental in her deployments of gendered subjectivities. In this way she is a key player in the formation of Romanticism as a style and as an approach

Print Book, English, 2003
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, 2003