Elizabeth Renker (Professor, Department of English, The Ohio State

Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the works of a diverse range of realist poets to redefine the significance of poetry to the genre of realism during the postbellum period in American literature.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808787
• ISBN-10: 019880878X
• Artikelnr.: 50989393

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Renker is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is also the author of The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History (Cambridge, 2007) and Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing (Johns Hopkins, 1996), as well as the editor of Poems: A Concise Anthology (Broadview Press, 2016). The Princeton Review's 2012 book Best 300 Professors named her one of the top 300 professors in the nation, across all universities and disciplines.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The 'Twilight of the Poets' in the Age of Realism
2: Reality Categories in Periodical Poems
3: After Wings: Sarah Piatt
4: Poetic Realisms
5: Late-century African American Poets and Realist Gentility
6: Melville Renders the Real