Reconceiving Nature: Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry

By Patricia Murphy

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221874
• ISBN13: 9780826221872
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"