Lyrical strains : liberalism and women's poetry in nineteenth-century America / Elissa Zellinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zellinger, Elissa, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century--Women authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Lyric poetry--19th century--Women authors.

Lyric poetry.

Liberalism--United States--History--19th century.

Liberalism.

Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Summary:

In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by omitting women, the enslaved and Native peoples. The conventions of poetic reception only redoubled the sense that liberal selfhood defined its boundaries by refusing raced and gendered others. In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century.

Contents:

Lyrical subjects and liberal publics

The poetess and the politics of profession

Elizabeth Oakes Smith's lyrical activism

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's two-body problem

Making the modernist poetess: Edna St. Vincent Millay

E. Pauline Johnson's poetics acts.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908589-0-0

979-88-908589-1-7

1-4696-5980-8