The posthumous voice in women's writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath

Description:

This book is about women writers writing Self-Elegy. That is, they write elegies for themselves as if they were already dead when they were writing-- though of course they're still alive when writing their self-elegies! The book asks why self-elegies were a popular form of writing for a few important women writers in England and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book focuses on Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, and Sylvia Plath, with some chapters on Mary Shelley's novella Matilda, and Christina Rossetti.

subjects: American poetry,  Death in literature,  English fiction,  Feminism in literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  English fiction, women authors,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  American poetry, women authors,  American poetry, history and criticism,  Femmes et littérature,  Histoire,  Mort dans la littérature,  Féminisme dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

People: Sylvia Plath,  Emily Dickinson,  Emily Bronte

Places: England,  United States

Times: 19th and 20th century