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J ane C ave W inscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection
Author(s) -
SCHÜRER NORBERT
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12010
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , poetry , connection (principal bundle) , biography , rhetorical question , criticism , history , art , literature , archaeology , engineering , structural engineering
Most criticism on provincial authors argues that they succeeded through connections to the London metropolis. The career of J ane C ave W inscom (c.1762‐1812) shows that another kind of provincial poet existed, one who moved through the provinces and eschewed metropolitan connections. New information on W inscom's biography and publications, and a close analysis of the content and rhetorical strategies of her poems, show her to have been a committed provincial author who interacted with the local community wherever she happened to be living.