Marmoreal Sisterhoods: Classical Statuary in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing

This article examines the deployment of statuary in nineteenth-century women’s poetry. It considers the importance of classical sculpture in the work of the Romantic writer Felicia Hemans before proceeding to examine its significance in poems by later Irish and American poets including Frances Sarge...

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Main Author: Patricia Pulham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-06-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/763