Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

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ISBN 10: 1551112418 / ISBN 13: 9781551112411

Published by Broadview Press Ltd, 2002

About this Item

his edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with essays-some never before reprinted-on literature, religion, education, prejudice, women's fashions, and class conflict. Editor(s): McCarthy, William; Kraft, Elizabeth. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 519 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486. . 2002. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
• Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551112418
• ISBN 13: 9781551112411
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

At her death in 1825, Anna Letitia Barbauld was considered one of the great writers of her time. Distinguished as a poet and essayist, she was also in innovator in children’s literature, an eloquent supporter of liberal politics, and a literary critic of stature. This edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with essays―some never before reprinted―on literature, religion, education, prejudice, women’s fashions, and class conflict.

About the Author

William McCarthy is the author of Hester Thrale Piozzo: Portrait of a Literary Woman (1985).

Elizabeth Kraft is the author of Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction (1992) and Laurence Sterne Revisited (1996). They co-edited The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld (1994) for the University of Georgia Press.