The Poetry Of American Women From 1632 To 1945
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The Poetry Of American Women From 1632 To 1945
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Author : Emily Stipes Watts
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10
The Poetry Of American Women From 1632 To 1945 written by Emily Stipes Watts and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Major Voices
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Author : Shira Wolosky
language : en
Publisher: Amazon Encore
Release Date : 2011-07
Major Voices written by Shira Wolosky and has been published by Amazon Encore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with Poetry categories.
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.
The First Wave
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Author : William Drake
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Release Date : 1988
The First Wave written by William Drake and has been published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with American poetry categories.
The Female Poets Of America
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Author : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Female Poets Of America written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with American literature categories.
Anthology of poetry by 115 American women poets.
American Women Poets Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Cheryl Walker
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1992
American Women Poets Of The Nineteenth Century written by Cheryl Walker and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Poetry categories.
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.
The Work Of Self Representation
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Author : Ivy Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Work Of Self Representation written by Ivy Schweitzer and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of "woman" and "feminine" function in Puritan religious and literary discourse to represent both the "otherness" of spiritual experience and the ways in which race and class function to keep the "other" in marginalized positions. Schwetizer argues that gender was for seventeenth-century new England -- and still is today -- a basic and most politically charged metaphor for the differences that shape identity and determine cultural position. To glimpse the struggle between gender ideology and experience, Schweitzer provides close readings of the poetry of four New Englanders writing between the Great Migration and the first wave of the Great Awakening: John Fiske, Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet, and Roger Williams. Schweitzer focuses exclusively on lyric poetry, she says, because a first-person speaker wrestling with the intricacies of individual consciousness provides fruitful ground for exploring the politics of voice and identity and especially problems of authority, intertextuality, and positionality. Fiske and Taylor define the orthodox tradition, and Bradstreet and Williams in different ways challenge it. Her treatment of the familiar poetry of Bradstreet and Taylor is solidly grounded in historical and literary scholarship yet suggestive of the new insights gained from a gender analysis, while discussions of Fiske and Williams bring their little-known lyric work to light. Taken together, these poets' texts illustrate the cultural construction of a troubled masculinity and an idealized, effaced femininity implicit in the Puritan notion of redeemed subjectivity, and constitute a profoundly disturbing and resilient part of our Puritan legacy.
Dickinson And The Strategies Of Reticence
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Author : Joanne Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1989-09-22
Dickinson And The Strategies Of Reticence written by Joanne Dobson and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Rejecting the view that interprets Emily Dickinson exclusively as a proto-modernist poet, Joanne Dobson finds Dickinson rooted in the expressive assumptions of her contemporary women writers. By looking at Dickinson in the context of these writers, Dobson uncovers the effects of common grounding in a cultural ethos of femininity that mandated personal reticence. Combining literary history and contemporary feminist literary theory, this study posits a complex interaction of personal preferences and editorial policies that resulted in a community of expression with impact on women's writing and literary careers.
Emily Dickinson And Her Contemporaries
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Author : Elizabeth A. Petrino
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1998
Emily Dickinson And Her Contemporaries written by Elizabeth A. Petrino and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An interdisciplinary examination of the poet, her milieu, and the ways she and her contemporaries freed their work from cultural limitations.
Gale Researcher Guide For Mercy Otis Warren And The Voice Of Women In An Age Of Revolution
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Author : Sandra J. Sarkela
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
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Gale Researcher Guide For Mercy Otis Warren And The Voice Of Women In An Age Of Revolution written by Sandra J. Sarkela and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Study Aids categories.
Gale Researcher Guide for: Mercy Otis Warren and the Voice of Women in an Age of Revolution is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Stealing The Language
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Author : Alicia Ostriker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Stealing The Language written by Alicia Ostriker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.