A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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American poetry
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Coverture
Difference feminism
Emily Dickinson
Emma Lazarus
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H.D.
Harper's Weekly
Helen Hunt Jackson
Humour
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Jews
Jurgen Habermas
Lesbian
Literary theory
Literature
Lydia Sigourney
Lyric poetry
Margaret Fuller
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mina Loy
Modernism
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Mrs.
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New Woman
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Oppression
Orientalism
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Phillis Wheatley
Phoebe Cary
Pity
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Poetic tradition
Poetry
Political poetry
Politics
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Public sphere
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Slavery
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T. S. Eliot
The Erotic
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To This Day
William Shakespeare
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- ISBN 9780691026442
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that "ordinary" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed.
In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.
Paula Bernat Bennett is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The editor of several books, including "Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets", she is the author of "My Life a Loaded Gun" and "Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet".
