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Lydia Sigourney : Critical Essays and Cultural Views /

"During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, travel writer, essayist, and educator. While serious critical attention to her work languished following her death and into the twentieth century...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Petrino, Elizabeth A., 1962- (Editor ), Kete, Mary Louise (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Introduction" / Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth A. Petrino
  • 1."Lydia Sigourney: From re-invention to re-consideration" / Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth A. Petrino
  • Section One: Sigourney's works. "Remodeling the kitchen in Parnassus : Sigourney's poetics of collaboration" / Jennifer Putzi; "A sense of the material object: Lydia sigourney's fabric poems" / Joan Wry
  • "Engaging contradictions: Lydia Sigourney's sketch of Connecticut, forty years since" / Sandra Zagarell; "From 'American hemans' to global savant: The structure of sentimental cosmopolitanism in Lydia Sigourney's pleasant Memories of pleasant lands (1842)" / Sean Epstein-Corbin; "You sink the woman, & the wife, in the writer': Lydia Sigourney and the feminist literary Atlantic" / Gary Kelly; "Baby to baby: Lydia Sigourney and the origins of cuteness" / Angela Sorby
  • Section Two: The work of Sigourney. "Common ground: The figure of the female poet in Lydia Huntley Sigourney's Lucy Howard's Journal and E.D.E.N. Southworth's The bridal eve" / Ann Beebe; "'Exil'd murmurings': 'The American hemans' and the politics of displacement" / Janet Dean; "'Several Sigourneys': Circulation, reprint culture, and Lydia Sigourney's educational prose" / Amy J. Lueck; "Sigourney's poetry of death" / Paul Lauter; "Emerson, Sigourney, and the didactic culture of transcendentalism" / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso; "The poetess and the witch: Revisiting Lydia" / Annie Finch
  • "Afterword" / Paula Bernat Bennett.