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• W58240216 abstract "ANNE KINGSMILL FINCH, Countess of Winchelsea (1661-1720), holds an established position in history of women's writing, but scholars have not always agreed on whether Finch reproduces or challenges gender-bias of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century poetic conventions. On one hand, Finch could be outspoken in her critique of male resistance women's poetry, but on other, Finch herself clearly worries about how her poetry will be received, and thus seems at times uphold very standards against which her own writing might be doomed fall short. complaint that opens The Introduction, for example, is well known for its pithy illustration of obstacles facing women writers. Here, Finch anticipates censure (2) that will attend any woman's entrance into public sphere, and assumes that men will be quick condemn (7) women's writing as insipid, empty, (4): Alas! woman that attempts pen, Such an intruder on rights of men, Such presumptuous creature is esteem'd, fault can by no virtue be redeemed. They tell us, we mistake our and way; Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing, play Are accomplishments we should desire; To write, or read, or think, or enquire Would cloud our ... (9-17) Worried about exposing lack of wit, Finch displays her intelligence through irony, appeal biblical authority, and rhetorical sophistication, thus proving inadequacy of misogynistic denouncement. But at very same time, such poetic strategies demonstrate lengths which she must go ensure that her work will not be read as uncorrect (the may be deemed but fair, mediocre writers). poem thus records tectonic unsteadiness, working deconstruct myth of women as beautiful but insignificant even as it manifests poet's anxiety about beauty of her work in very world that imposes that censure. In what follows, I will argue that poetry, for Finch, becomes site of contest over refracting discourse of fair. By manipulating her culture's assumptions about beauty, femininity, and intellect, Finch's work ultimately exposes insufficiencies of patriarchal law that reproduces unfairness in both its construction of women and its determination of what counts as aesthetically pleasing. In deceptively witty manner, Finch admits that by presenting herself world intellectually, she may render that self monstrous deviation--the ugly spectacle that is woman writer. By dint of such acknowledgment, however, she exacts her own form of condemnation, utilizing this catalogue of patriarchal insults (an intruder, a presumptuous creature) impugn culture's construction of fair sex confined the dull manage of servile house (19) and shallow maintenance of beauty. Despite, but also because of, insecurity about their worth, Finch's poems work rescue women from confinement as objects in men's poetry, and insist upon legitimacy of female visibility and speech. The Appology exemplifies Finch's skill at shifting rhetorical position stage an argument against gender construction and cultural prohibitions barring women from writing. title disingenuously apologizes; first clause--'Tis true I write--immediately opens space of resistance what must be apologized for: woman who, in defiance of some Rule that might forbid her from play[ing] fool, writes anyway (1-2). Writing is aligned with kind of gaming or masquerade, and as poem develops, Finch appears liken herself, as poet, other women who engage in more conventional (but, perhaps, equally self-indulgent) behaviors: Mira, who paints her (6), Lamia, whose borrow'd Spiritts sparkle in her Eyes (8), and Flavia, who continues to lett that face be seen/Which all Town rejected at fifteen (13-14). By describing her writing in terms of activities that are not just typically feminine but also deliberately entrapping, Finch points peculiarly gendered obligation woman writer has seduce her audience, and also reveals pressures women are under beautify themselves in an unforgiving world--one disinclined, for instance, ignore depredations of aging. …" @default.
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