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 | | Describes Barbauld's "Verses on Mrs Rowe" as an assertion of authorial identity, an act of identification with bluestocking Elizabeth Carter and, through her, Elizabeth Rowe: "For a woman to write herself in, to inscribe her identity, she must trans-scribe, write through and write across, the mythicized predecessor as enabling muse" (p. |
 | | Chapter 6, "Transcending Misogyny: Anna Letitia Barbauld Writes Her Way Out," argues that Barbauld is able to transcend the misogyny of the emerging discipline of literature by renouncing dominant aesthetic theories used to value literature as canonical. |
 | | Although Barbauld's criticism shows a Johnsonian moral concern, ability to fix on significant issues, clarity of analysis, and realistic understanding of human nature, "her voice is distinctively different from Johnson's, and this difference has much to do with her gender" (p. |
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