Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry gender and religious identity. Broadly interdisciplinary the book''s methodology relates to studies in poetics religious studies feminist literary criticism and little-known Anglo-Jewish primary sources.