TY - BOOK AU - Lootens,Tricia TI - The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres SN - 9780691170312 AV - PR595.W6 U1 - 821.8099287 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - English poetry KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Feminism and literature KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women KW - bisacsh KW - A Curse for a Nation KW - Abolition time KW - Alice Walker KW - Antigone KW - Black Poetess KW - Casabianca KW - Cheryl Walker KW - Dinah Mulock Craik KW - Elizabeth Barrett Browning KW - Elizabeth Bishop KW - Elizabeth V. Spelman KW - Ellen Moers KW - Emma Lazarus KW - Erlene Stetson KW - Felicia Dorothea Hemans KW - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper KW - Fruits of Sorrow KW - G.W.F. Hegel KW - Harriet Tubman KW - J.M.W. Turner KW - Julia Ward Howe KW - Meridian KW - Nightingale's Burden KW - Poetess performance KW - Poetess reception KW - Poetess KW - Political Poetess KW - Second Wave Poetess criticism KW - The Vision of the Czar of Russia KW - The Works of Mrs. Hemans KW - Victorian femininity KW - Victorian studies KW - Virginia Woolf KW - antislavery poetics KW - antislavery KW - critical race studies KW - displacement KW - elegy KW - ethical refocalization KW - femininity KW - feminist criticism KW - feminist theory KW - haunting KW - national sentimentality KW - patriotic poetry KW - poems KW - poetic reading KW - political poetics KW - private sphere KW - race KW - sentimental poetry KW - separate spheres KW - slavery KW - suspended spheres KW - women N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Slaves, Spheres, Poetess Poetics --; Section 1. Racializing the Poetess: Haunting "Separate Spheres" --; Chapter One. Antislavery Afterlives: Changing the Subject / Haunting the Poetess --; Chapter Two. "Not Another 'Poetess'": Feminist Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, and the Racialization of Suicide --; Section 2. Suspending Spheres: The Violent Structures of Patriotic Pacifism --; Chapter Three. Suspending Spheres, Suspending Disbelief: Hegel's Antigone, Craik's Crimea, Woolf's Three Guineas --; Chapter Four. Turning and Burning: Sentimental Criticism, Casabiancas, and the Click of the Cliché --; Section 3. Transatlantic Occasions: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Poetics at the Limits --; Chapter Five. Teaching Curses, Teaching Nations: Abolition Time and the Recoils of Antislavery Poetics --; Chapter Six. Harper's Hearts: "Home Is Never Natural or Safe" --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"-one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth-century domestic or private sphere whose imaginary, apolitical heart is also the heart of nation and empire, and, as revisionist histories increasingly attest, is traumatized and haunted by histories of slavery. Setting aside late Victorian attempts to forget the unfulfilled, sentimental promises of early antislavery victories, The Political Poetess restores Poetess performances like Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" to view-and with them, the vitality of the Black Poetess within African-American public life.Crossing boundaries of nation, period, and discipline to "connect the dots" of Poetess performance, Lootens demonstrates how new histories and ways of reading position poetic texts by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Mulock Craik, George Eliot, and Frances E. W. Harper as convergence points for larger engagements ranging from Germaine de Staël to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883721?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400883721 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400883721.jpg ER -