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

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 Israelit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 halftones.
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Table of 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