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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now (Hardcover)
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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
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This book is 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. The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement
represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious
boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies
between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly
apt moment for its study. This book is 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. Poetry that speaks to a
broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual
ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of
the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and
must matter today. Yothers examines antislavery poetry in light of
recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and
rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and
gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary
sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the
canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois,
Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia
Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James
Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been
recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells
Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.
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Imprint: |
Camden House
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies in American Literature and Culture |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Brian Yothers
(Series Editor)
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
308 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64014-069-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-64014-069-7 |
Barcode: |
9781640140691 |
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