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Poets in the Public Sphere : The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900 / Paula Bernat Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691227702
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.3099287 22
LOC classification:
  • PS310.F45
  • PS310.F45 B46 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Poetry in the Public Sphere -- PART ONE -- 1. Literary Sentimentality and the Genteel Lyric -- 2. High Sentimentality and the Politics of Reform -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Difference -- 4. Harper, Parnell, Lazarus, and Johnson -- PART TWO -- 5. Domestic Gothic and Sentimental Parody -- 6. Irony's Edge: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Speaker -- 7. Sex, Sexualities, and Female Erotic Discourse -- 8. Making It New in the Fin de Siecle -- CODA After 1910 -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that "ordinary" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed. In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Poetry in the Public Sphere -- PART ONE -- 1. Literary Sentimentality and the Genteel Lyric -- 2. High Sentimentality and the Politics of Reform -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Difference -- 4. Harper, Parnell, Lazarus, and Johnson -- PART TWO -- 5. Domestic Gothic and Sentimental Parody -- 6. Irony's Edge: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Speaker -- 7. Sex, Sexualities, and Female Erotic Discourse -- 8. Making It New in the Fin de Siecle -- CODA After 1910 -- Notes -- Index

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Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that "ordinary" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed. In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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