The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the by Tricia Lootens

By Tricia Lootens

The Political Poetess demanding situations customary bills of the determine of the nineteenth-century Poetess, providing new readings of Poetess functionality and feedback. In acting the Poetry of lady, the mythic Poetess has lengthy staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"—one exempt from rising readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens versions a nineteenth-century family or inner most sphere whose imaginary, apolitical center is additionally the guts of state and empire, and, as revisionist histories more and more attest, is traumatized and haunted via histories of slavery. atmosphere apart past due Victorian makes an attempt to omit the unfulfilled, sentimental provides of early antislavery victories, The Political Poetess restores Poetess performances like Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” to view—and with them, the energy of the Black Poetess inside of African-American public life.

Crossing obstacles of state, interval, and self-discipline to “connect the dots” of Poetess functionality, Lootens demonstrates how new histories and methods of studying place poetic texts via Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Mulock Craik, George Eliot, and Frances E. W. Harper as convergence issues for greater engagements starting from Germaine de Staël to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond.

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