A history of nineteenth-century American women's poetry /

A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of this complex field. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts and methodological...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Putzi, Jennifer (Editor), Socarides, Alexandra (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	American poetry > Women authors > 19th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Making History: Thinking about Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry / Jennifer Putzi, Alexandra Socarides
Part I. 1800-1840, 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. 1840-1865, Unions and Disunions. 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: Toward 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.