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Reconceiving Nature : Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women’s Poetry, Hardback Book

Reconceiving Nature : Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women’s Poetry Hardback

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Glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later Victorian period.

Patricia Murphy examines the work of six “proto-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.

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