Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius who
was unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions
of his time. In this text, Eliza Richards revises this portrayal
through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his
female contemporaries. Richards demonstrates that he staged his
performance of tortured isolation in the salons and ephemeral
publications of New York City in conjunction with prominent women
poets whose work he sought to surpass. She introduces and
interprets the work of three important and largely forgotten women
poets: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth
Oakes Smith. Richards re-evaluates the work of these writers, and
of nineteenth-century lyric practices more generally, by examining
poems in the context of their circulation and reception within
nineteenth-century print culture. This book will be of interest to
scholars of American print culture as well as specialists of
nineteenth-century literature and poetry.
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