Reconceiving Nature
Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Women Authors, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | PATRICIA MURPHY | ISBN: | 9780826274298 |
| Publisher: | University of Missouri Press | Publication: | March 28, 2019 |
| Imprint: | University of Missouri | Language: | English |
| Author: | PATRICIA MURPHY |
| ISBN: | 9780826274298 |
| Publisher: | University of Missouri Press |
| Publication: | March 28, 2019 |
| Imprint: | University of Missouri |
| Language: | English |
Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets—Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington—who contested the exploitation of the natural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is inferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead “reconstructed” nature.
Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets—Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington—who contested the exploitation of the natural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is inferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead “reconstructed” nature.
