From school to salon : reading nineteenth-century American women's poetry / Mary Loeffelholz.
With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glarin...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004] Ã2004 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the objects of recovery
- I. Prodigy and teacher; or, poetry in the domestic-tutelary complex
- Ch. 1. Who killed Lucretia Davidson?
- Ch. 2. The school of Lydia Sigourney
- II. Lessons of the sphinx : poetry and cultural capital in abolition and reconstruction
- Ch. 3. Poetry, slavery, personification : Maria Lowell's "Africa"
- Ch. 4. A difference in the vernacular : the reconstruction poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- III. The conquest of autonomy
- Ch. 5. "Plied from nought to nought" : Helen Hunt Jackson and the field of Emily Dickinson's refusals
- Ch. 6. Metropolitan pastoral : the salon poetry of Annie Fields.