Questioning Nature
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry''s complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers of the era—including Mary Shelley, Anna B...
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry''s complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers of the era—including Mary Shelley, Anna B...
