Political Poetess (eBook)

Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

Tricia Lootens (Autor)

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2016
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8372-1 (ISBN)

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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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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 "e;separate spheres"e;-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 "e;Battle Hymn of the Republic"e; and Emma Lazarus's "e;The New Colossus"e; to view-and with them, the vitality of the Black Poetess within African-American public life.Crossing boundaries of nation, period, and discipline to "e;connect the dots"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2016
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abjection • abolitionism • Abolition time • A Curse for a Nation • affair • African Americans • Alice Walker • Ambivalence • American poetry • amy lowell • Anne K. Mellor • Antigone • antislavery • antislavery poetics • Apotheosis • aurora leigh • bell hooks • Black Poetess • Career • Casabianca • Charles Dickens • Cheryl Walker • Christina Rossetti • Close reading • Critical Race Studies • Criticism • Despair (novel) • Dinah Mulock Craik • Displacement • Elegy • elizabeth barrett browning • Elizabeth Bishop • Elizabeth V. Spelman • Ellen Moers • Emily Dickinson • Emma Lazarus • Epigraph (literature) • Erlene Stetson • ethical refocalization • Felicia Dorothea Hemans • Felicia Hemans • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Feminist criticism • feminist literary criticism • feminist theory • Foe (novel) • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper • Fruits of Sorrow • George Eliot • G.W.F. Hegel • Harriet Martineau • Harriet Tubman • haunting • Haunting (video game) • Historiography • hypocrisy • Ideology • In Death • injunction • Iola Leroy • Irony • Isobel Armstrong • J.M.W. Turner • John Ruskin • Joseph Bristow (literary scholar) • Josephine Butler • Julia Ward Howe • Lady Lazarus • Lauren Berlant • Letitia Elizabeth Landon • Literature • Masculinity • Meridian • Militarism • Misery (novel) • Mourning • Mrs. • narrative • national sentimentality • Nightingale's Burden • N. (novella) • Novel • novelist • Open secret • Ostend Manifesto • Pacifism • Parody • patriotic poetry • Patriotism • phillis wheatley • Poems • Poet • Poetess • Poetess performance • Poetess reception • poetic reading • Poet Laureate • Poetry • Political Poetess • political poetics • Political Poetry • Politics • Precedent • Print Culture • Private Sphere • Protagonist • Publication • Race • Racialization • Racism • rhetoric • Romanticism • Rudyard Kipling • Satire • Second Wave Poetess criticism • Sentimentalism (literature) • sentimentality • Sentimental poetry • separate spheres • Slavery • Sophocles • stanza • Structuring • Subjectivity • Suffering • Suffrage • Suggestion • Susan Gubar • suspended spheres • Sylvia Plath • The Angel in the House • The Vision of the Czar of Russia • The Works of Mrs. Hemans • Thomas Carlyle • Three Guineas • Victorian Era • Victorian femininity • Victorian Studies • Virginia Woolf • Vocation (poem) • warfare • William Shakespeare • Women • Woolf • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8372-5 / 1400883725
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8372-1 / 9781400883721