Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Lessons in logos from antebellum American women poets
  • Ethos-in-process: sentimental women poets and "true womanhood"
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, black poet ventriloquist
  • Reviving Lydia Huntley Sigourney
  • Howe's "i-s" return the gaze of men
  • Audience: who reads sentimental poetry and who cares?
  • Slave market matrix of Harper's critical pedagogy
  • Sigourney's readers: problems of sentimental rhetoric and class
  • Howe's passion flowers dialogue with a master
  • Conclusion: sentimental rhetoric's poets and prospects.