From School to Salon
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American poetry
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Celia Thaxter
Criticism
Cultural capital
Curriculum
Diction
Dramatic monologue
Elaine Showalter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Bishop
Elocution
Emily Dickinson
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Female education
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist literary criticism
Fiction
Frances Harper
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Gift book
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Helen Hunt Jackson
Housewife
John Hollander
Lecture
Library of America
Literacy
Literature
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Louisa May Alcott
Lucy Larcom
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Sigourney
Lyric poetry
Margaret Fuller
Mary Poovey
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Mrs.
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Oppression
Pierre Bourdieu
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Dream of a Common Language
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Washington Irving
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- ISBN 9780691049403
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glaring gap. Mary Loeffelholz presents the work of nineteenth-century women poets in the context of the history, culture, and politics of the times. She uses a series of case studies to discuss why the recovery of nineteenth-century women's poetry has been a process of anthologization without succeeding analysis. At the same time, she provides a much-needed account of the changing social contexts through which nineteenth-century American women became poets: initially by reading, reciting, writing, and publishing poetry in school, and later, by doing those same things in literary salons, institutions created by the high-culture movement of the day. Along the way, Loeffelholz provides detailed analyses of the poetry, much of which has received little or no recent critical attention.
She focuses on the works of a remarkably diverse array of poets, including Lucretia Maria Davidson, Lydia Sigourney, Maria Lowell, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Annie Fields. Impeccably researched and gracefully written, From School to Salon moves the study of nineteenth-century women's poetry to a new and momentous level.
Mary Loeffelholz is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University and the author of "Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory".
