Antebellum American Women's Poetry : A Rhetoric of Sentiment /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Wendy Dasler (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Frauenlyrik
Empfindsamkeit
Social problems in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
American poetry > Women authors.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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