Original Copy : Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogelius, Christa Holm.

Series:

Becoming Modern: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and literature.

American literature--19th century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2025.

Summary:

This scholarly work explores the concept of ekphrasis—the literary depiction of visual art—within the context of American literature and its intersections with gender and national identity during the long nineteenth century. Author Christa Holm Vogelius examines how literary figures such as Phillis Wheatley Peters, Margaret Fuller, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow engaged with visual art and its representation to articulate ideas about race, gender, and cultural nationalism. Through close analysis of texts and images, the book investigates how these authors used ekphrasis to navigate and critique social and political hierarchies of their time. Intended for an academic audience, this book contributes to discussions in American studies, visual culture, gender studies, and literary history. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: First Things, Third Things

Chapter One: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Antebellum Remediation

Chapter Two: "The Fusion of the Races Among Us": Summer on the Lakes and Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Nationalism

Chapter Three: "Folded up in a Veil": Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Familial Ekphrasis and the Antebellum Travelogue

Chapter Four: Longfellow, Michael Angelo, and the "Middle-Class" Curator

Coda: Ekphrastic Citizenship: Claudia Rankine's American Lyrics

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781685751159

1685751156

OCLC:

1503843830