Overview

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 from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth-century domestic or private sphere whose imaginary, apolitical heart is also the heart of nation and empire, and, as revisionist histories increasingly attest, is traumatized and haunted by histories of slavery. Setting aside late Victorian attempts to forget the unfulfilled, sentimental promises of early antislavery victories, The Political Poetess restores Poetess performances like Julia Ward Howe's ""Battle Hymn of the Republic"" and Emma Lazarus's ""The New Colossus"" to view--and with them, the vitality of the Black Poetess within African-American public life.Crossing boundaries of nation, period, and discipline to ""connect the dots"" of Poetess performance, Lootens demonstrates how new histories and ways of reading position poetic texts by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Mulock Craik, George Eliot, and Frances E. W. Harper as convergence points for larger engagements ranging from Germaine de Stael to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond.

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Author:   Tricia Lootens
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780691170312

ISBN 10:   0691170312
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   20 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Introduction: Slaves, Spheres, Poetess Poetics 1 Section 1 Racializing the Poetess: Haunting ""Separate Spheres"" 1 Antislavery Afterlives: Changing the Subject / Haunting the Poetess 29 2 ""Not Another 'Poetess' "": Feminist Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, and the Racialization of Suicide 54 Section 2 Suspending Spheres: The Violent Structures of Patriotic Pacifism 3 Spheres, Suspending Disbelief: Hegel's Antigone, Craik's Crimea, Woolf's Three Guineas 83 4 Turning and Burning: Sentimental Criticism, Casabiancas, and the Click of the Cliche 116 Section 3 Transatlantic Occasions: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Poetics at the Limits 5 Teaching Curses, Teaching Nations: Abolition Time and the Recoils of Antislavery Poetics 153 6 Harper's Hearts: ""Home Is Never Natural or Safe"" 180 Notes 213 Works Cited 283 Acknowledgments 313 Index 319"

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It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing. --Choice

""It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing.""--Choice

Author Information

Tricia Lootens is associate professor of English and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization.

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