Why antislavery poetry matters now:

A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history

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Main Author: Yothers, Brian 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY Camden House 2023
Series:Studies in American literature and culture
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history
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Introduction: Present Valor -- Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry -- Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy -- Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman -- Epilogue: W.E.B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 296 Seiten)
ISBN:9781800103368
DOI:10.1017/9781800103368

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