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Why antislavery poetry matters now /

"The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yothers, Brian, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023.
Colección:Studies in American literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Present Valor
  • Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry
  • Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
  • Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy
  • Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
  • Epilogue: W.E.B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry.