History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Putzi, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women's poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316028254
• Artikelnr.: 52994700

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: making history: thinking about nineteenth-century American
women's poetry Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides; Part I. 1800-40,
American Poesis and the National Imaginary: 1. Claiming Lucy Terry Prince:
literary history and the problem of early African-American women poets Mary
Louise Kete; 2. Before the poetess: women's poetry in the early republic
Tamara Harvey; 3. The passion for poetry in Lydia Sigourney and Elizabeth
Oakes Smith Kerry Larson; 4. Album verse and the poetics of scribal
circulation Michael C. Cohen; 5. Presents of mind: Lydia Sigourney, gift
book culture, and the commodification of poetry Elizabeth A. Petrino; 6.
The friendship elegy Desirée Henderson; 7. Gendered Atlantic: Lydia
Sigourney and Felicia Hemans Gary Kelly; Part II. 1840-65, Unions and
Disunion: 8. Women, Transcendentalism, and The Dial: poetry and poetics
Michelle Kohler; 9. Poets of the loom, spinners of verse: working-class
women's poetry and The Lowell Offering Jennifer Putzi; 10. Women's
transatlantic poetic network Páraic Finnerty; 11. Making and unmaking a
canon: American women's poetry and the nineteenth-century anthology
Alexandra Socarides; 12. 'What witty sally': Phoebe Cary's poetics of
parody Faith Barrett; 13. Nineteenth-century American women's poetry of
slavery and abolition Eric Gardner; 14. Fever-dreams: antebellum Southern
women poets and the Gothic Paula Bennett; 15. The Civil War language of
flowers Eliza Richards; 16. Poetry and bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward
Whitley; Part III. 1865-1900, Experiment and Expansion: 17. Women poets and
American literary realism Elizabeth Renker; 18. Verse forms Cristanne
Miller; 19. Braided relations: towards a history of nineteenth-century
American Indian women's poetry Robert Dale Parker; 20. Frances Harper and
the poetry of reconstruction Monique-Adelle Callahan; 21. (Hear the bird):
Sarah Piatt and the dramatic monologue Jess Roberts; 22. Women writers and
the hymn Claudia Stokes; 23. Women poets, child readers Angela Sorby; 24.
Emma Lazarus transnational Shira Wolosky; 25. The creation of Emily
Dickinson and the study of nineteenth-century American women's poetry Mary
Loeffelholz.