The Political Poetess : : Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres / / Tricia Lootens.
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 fr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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