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The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

Lootens, Tricia

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0691170312
ISBN13: 9780691170312
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Dec 20 2016
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

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 Staël to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond.

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