‘A Muse / To grace the Page of weekly News’: Mary Leapor and the Periodical Press

Batt, Jennifer

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“…However, Wright also explores the role of other actors in shaping these collections (scribes, editors, publishers) and emphasises that some women (like Anne Finch) had much more control over the process than others (like Mary Monck). Scholars have continued to probe these vexed questions of agency and intention as they explore how women poets navigated the mechanisms of the rapidly expanding eighteenth-century print marketplace, from periodicals (Batt, 2017;Batchelor & Powell, 2018;Kizer, 1998;Overton, 2001), to miscellanies (Lavoie, 2009;Lawton-Trask, 2017), to subscription publication (O'Flaherty, 2013;Overton, 2004).…”

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Recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry

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2021

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The eighteenth century was a period of vital importance for the development of women's poetry: with each passing decade, more women began to read and write verse in every available genre and form. Since the late 1980s, this poetry has become increasingly accessible, and individual women poets have been thoroughly integrated into academic research and teaching. This essay provides an overview of recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry. It begins by outlining broad trends in women's literary history which have shaped the field, before highlighting the unique challenges that women's poetry presents. It then offers a more focused survey of recently published scholarship, with an emphasis on the last 2 decades. Emerging research themes span from the growth in book history and manuscript investigations, to the resurgence of formalist interpretation. Studies of women's poetry have allowed scholars not only to reassess women's contributions to eighteenth‐century literary history, but to reconsider the very nature of that history—by re‐envisioning how and why poetry was written, innovated, circulated, published, read, and valued within the period. The essay concludes by proposing future directions for the field, including the need for continued recovery work, more critical editions and monograph studies, new methodologies, cross‐period dialogues with scholars of early modern and Romantic women's poetry, and practical initiatives to support precarious early career researchers.

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Recent scholarship on eighteenth‐century women's poetry

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2021

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‘A Muse / To grace the Page of weekly News’: Mary Leapor and the Periodical Press

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