Poetry and public discourse in nineteenth-century America
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Shira Wolosky.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xii, 254 p.).
SERIES
Series Title
Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface: The Claims of Rhetoric * PART I: Modest Claims * Writing Etiquette * Emily Dickinson: Crises of American Identity * Public and Private: Reconsidered * PART II: Claiming the Bible * Slave Spirituals and Black Typology * Women's Bibles * Herman Melville: Fractured Rhetoric in Battle-Pieces * PART III: Poetic Languages * Genteel Poets: Rhetoric North and South * Edgar Allan Poe: Repetition, Women, and Signs * Stephen Crane: American Economies * Santayana and Harvard Formalism * PART IV: Plural Identities * Local-Color Poetry * Crossing Languages in Paul Laurence Dunbar * Emma Lazarus: An American-Jewish Typology * Walt Whitman's Republic of Letters * Postscript: Charting American Trends
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Arguing against the perception of poetry as an elite discourse, Shira Wolosky explores the ways that Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, and others shaped nineteenth-century American cultural debate.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American poetry -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.