Isobel Armstrong

Standard Name: Armstrong, Isobel

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Textual Features	Margaret Veley	As critics Joseph Bristow and Isobel Armstrong note, the poems are technically assured; Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 670 their succinctness of diction and evocative imagery anticipate the poetry of the fin-de-siècle. Some tackle universal yet also fashionable themes...
Literary responses	Carol Rumens	From this collection onwards Rumens's work consistently reached outside Britain to the experience of other countries. Scholar Isobel Armstrong has called her a European poet. Rumens, Carol. Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe Books. back cover
Literary responses	Adelaide Procter	Notwithstanding, or indeed perhaps because of, her popularity in the Victorian period, AP 's critical reputation foundered for most of the twentieth century. A study in German by Ferdinand Janku (Adelaide Anne Procter: ihr...
Family and Intimate relationships	Emily Jane Pfeiffer	Her mother (born Emily Tilsley) was the daughter of a wealthy Montgomeryshire banker. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 161 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Most sources agree on her mother's family name as Tilsley. However, Armstrong and Bristow cite it as Tyldesley from the ancient...
Reception	Constance Naden	Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...
Literary responses	Charlotte Mew	Among recent critics, Isobel Armstrong sees CM as a difficult figure for literary history because of her isolation: her poetry appeared in a decade when nothing of the same sort was current. Celeste Schenck puts...
Reception	Amy Levy	A revival began with Melvyn New 's edition in 1993 of her Complete Novels and Selected Writings. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 2 Although AL 's poetry is comparatively slighted in this edition, her work has been regularly included...
Textual Features	Ursula K. Le Guin	Isobel Armstrong , reviewing Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand for the TLS, noted Le Guin's pioneering recognition of the stories of native American women, and her engagement with the commonplace lives examined here, of middle-class...
Textual Features	Julia Kristeva	Another concern of this essay is the violence with which gender roles have historically been enforced. JK sees, according to Isobel Armstrong , the female terrorist as a model of women's condition of damaged narcissism. Armstrong, Isobel. “Introduction”. New Feminist Discourses, edited by Isobel Armstrong, Routledge, pp. 1-7. 6
Literary responses	Harriet Hamilton King	Hickey noted of these poems that we have the delight in beauty, in beauty for its own sake; the revelling in the wonder of flowers, which Mrs. King can write of as very few can...
Residence	May Kendall	Not much is known about MK 's life in the twentieth century. According to Isobel Armstrong , Joseph Bristow , and Cath Sharrock in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, she was quite eccentric...
Literary responses	Jean Ingelow	Gladys and Her Island. (On the Advantages of the Poetical Temperament.) An Imperfect Fable with a Doubtful Moral is an allegorical poem dubbed by one early reviewer a great mistake. It has, however attracted...
Reception	Laurence Hope	Despite her immense popularity during her lifetime, LH has not benefited as much as other forgotten poets from the resurgence of attention to women's writing. Her work is not included in the major recent anthologies...
Intertextuality and Influence	Felicia Hemans	Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L.
Cultural formation	Ann Hawkshaw	As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...

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Texts

Fletcher, Robert P. “’ I leave the page half-writ’: Narrative Discoherence in Michael Field’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Underneath the Bough</span&gt”;. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 164-82.

Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.

Leighton, Angela. “’Because Men Made the Laws’: the Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet”. New Feminist Discourses, edited by Isobel Armstrong, Routledge, 1992, pp. 342-60.

Waldron, Mary. “’This Muse-born Wonder’: The Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 113-26.

Moore, Jane. “An other space: a future for feminism?”. New Feminist Discourses, edited by Isobel Armstrong, Routledge, 1992, pp. 65-79.

Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. “Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 207-29.

Lootens, Tricia. “Hemans and her American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry and National Identity”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 243-60.

Armstrong, Isobel. “Introduction”. New Feminist Discourses, edited by Isobel Armstrong, Routledge, 1992, pp. 1-7.

Grundy, Isobel. “Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and ’Old Satyrical Codes’”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, MacMillan Press, 1999, pp. 67-80.

Armstrong, Isobel. “Msrepresentation: Codes of Affect and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.

Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.

Marx, Edward. “Reviving Laurence Hope”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., Macmillan, 1999, pp. 230-42.

Peterson, Linda H. “Rewriting ’A History of the Lyre’: Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the (Re)Construction of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Poet”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 115-34.

Curran, Stuart. “Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 145-66.

Doody, Margaret Anne. “Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.

Sales, Roger. “The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 127-41.

Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics. Routledge, 1993.

Groth, Helen. “Victorian Women Poets and Scientific Narratives”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 325-51.

Hickok, Kathleen. “Why is this Woman Still Missing? Emily Pfeiffer, Victorian Poet”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 373-89.