The Poetry Of American Women From 1632 To 1945
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Author | : Emily Stipes Watts |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-09-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1477303448 |
American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's pen." The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original. Emily Stipes Watts does not imply that the work of American men and that of American women are two different kinds of poetry, although they have been treated as such in the past. It is her aim, rather, to delineate and define the poetic tradition of women as crucial to the understanding of American poetry as a whole. By 1850, American women of all colors, religions, and social classes were writing and publishing poetry. Within the critical category of "female poetry," developed from 1800 to 1850, these women experimented boldly and prepared the way for the achievement of such women as Emily Dickinson in the second half of the nineteenth century. Indeed at times—for example from 1860 through 1910—it was women who were at the outer edge of prosodic experimentation and innovation in American poetry. Moving chronologically, Professor Watts broadly characterizes the state of American poetry for each period, citing the dominant male poets; she then focuses on women contemporaries, singling out and analyzing their best work. This volume not only brings to light several important women poets but also represents the discovery of a tradition of women writers. This is a unique and invaluable contribution to the history of American literature.
Author | : Shira Wolosky |
Publisher | : Amazon Encore |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781935597834 |
An introductory essay will identify central concerns, historical backgrounds, evolving patterns and poetic issues, as marked through the course of the century. The work of these poets provides a gripping view of the creativity of nineteenth-century American women that has been until recently almost entirely lost to literary history. Supremely relevant to today's readers, this is poetry that began the efforts at the redefinition of self, of America, and of womanhood that continues to touch the lives and thoughts of so many today.
Author | : Rufus Wilmot Griswold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
Biographical sketches and selections of poetry from over one hundred American poets including Anne Bradstreet, Lydia Maria Child, Lucy Carion, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Author | : Cheryl Walker |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780813517919 |
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflections on madness, drug use, and suicide of women whose lives, as Cheryl Walker explains, were often as melodramatic as the poems they composed and published. In addition to works by more than two dozen poets, the anthology includes ample headnotes about each author's life and a brief critical evaluation of her work. Walker's introduction to the volume provides valuable contextual material to help readers understand the cultural background, economic necessities, literary conventions, and personal dynamics that governed women's poetic production in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Jennifer Putzi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316033546 |
A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women's poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.
Author | : Caroline May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
Biographies supplemented by selections of poetry of over seventy American women poets, including Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Sigourney, and Mary E. Hewitt.
Author | : Dale M. Bauer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1161 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316176002 |
The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity, The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers – from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers. This volume immerses readers in a new dialogue about the range and depth of women's literature in the United States and allows them to trace the ever-evolving shape of the field.
Author | : Alexandra Socarides |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198855524 |
In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely as something that was done to these women but as the result of the conventions that once made the circulation of their poetry possible in the first place, this volume offers the first book-length analysis of the conventions of nineteenth-century American women's poetry. While each of the chapters focuses on a specific convention, taken together they tell the complicated story of nineteenth-century American women's poetry, tracing the spaces within literary culture where it lived and thrived, the spaces from which it was always in the process of vanishing. By reclaiming these conventions as a constitutive part of nineteenth-century American women's poetry, this book asks readers to take seriously the work these women produced and the role their work might play in remapping American literary history.
Author | : Susan L. Rattiner |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486112659 |
Superb, inexpensive anthology spans four centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.
Author | : Judith Fetterley |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1985-10-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780253203496 |
"This valuable collection . . . should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." —Publishers Weekly This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.