Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet by Bethan Roberts

Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet by Bethan Roberts

This book explores Charlotte Smiths Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its place understood in multiple ways in literary history. It argues that Smiths work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smiths career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England.

‘[Roberts] offers fascinating readings of some of Smith’s now long-forgotten precursors, placing the poet within a lively and constantly evolving English sonnet tradition’
Claire Knowles, European Romantic Review

‘Roberts provides something new and even overdue with her meticulous accounting of the nine editions of Smith’s name-making Elegiac Sonnets and Smith’s evolution as a poet over the corresponding sixteen years… [Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet] is valuable as a thorough and authoritative account of Smith’s influential poetry, with (as promised in the title) broader implications for understanding place and form in Romanticism, particularly in her proposal that the sonnet is an importantly Romantic poetic form.’ Lawrence Evalyn, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Bethan Roberts is William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate in the English Department at the University of Liverpool.

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ISBN 13	9781789620177
ISBN 10	1789620171
Title	Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet
Author	Bethan Roberts
Series	Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies In Literature And Culture 1780-1850
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Year published	2019-11-13
Number of pages	192
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