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Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper

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Authors:
  1. Claire Knowles

    1. Department of Languages and Culture, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Highlights the significance and dominance of female poets in the Della Cruscan movement
  • Shows how women writers came to play a pivotal role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper
  • Surveys popular poetry published in four key daily newspapers in the late eighteenth century

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Poetry and the Rise of the Fashionable Newspaper

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 1-16

  3. Mary Wells, Edward Topham and the Feminization of the Late Eighteenth Century Newspaper

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 17-46

  4. Hannah Cowley and the Della Cruscan Star System

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 47-68

  5. The Oracle and the Female Poet

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 69-99

  6. Della Cruscanism in Wartime

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 101-124

  7. Stuart’s Post and the Reign of Mary Robinson

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 125-154

  8. Charlotte Dacre, Sophia King and the Tory Post

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 155-179

  9. Conclusion. Felicia Hemans, the Della Cruscans and the Great Forgetting

    • Claire Knowles
    Pages 181-184

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-210
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About this book

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper. In doing so, this study offers the first account of the feminization of the fashionable newspaper and of popular literary culture in the final years of the eighteenth century. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Languages and Culture, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Claire Knowles

About the author

Claire Knowles is Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University, Australia. She is author of Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith (2009) and edited Charlotte Smith: The Major Poems with Ingrid Horrocks. Claire is also the current President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia.

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