Lyrical strains : liberalism and women's poetry in nineteenth-century America

Lyrical strains : liberalism and women's poetry in nineteenth-century America / Elissa Zellinger.

Author/creator	Zellinger, Elissa author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Description	pages cm
Subject(s)	American poetry--19th century --Women authors --History and criticism. Lyric poetry--19th century --Women authors. Liberalism--United States --History --19th century. Politics and literature--United States --History --19th century.

Contents	Lyrical subjects and liberal publics -- The poetess and the politics of profession -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith's lyrical activism -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's two-body problem -- Making the modernist poetess: Edna St. Vincent Millay -- E. Pauline Johnson's poetics acts.
Abstract	"In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by omitting women, the enslaved, and Native peoples. The conventions of poetic reception only redoubled the sense that liberal selfhood defined its boundaries by refusing raced and gendered others. Yet Zellinger argues that it is precisely the poetics of the excluded that offer insights into the dynamic processes that came to form the modern liberal and lyric subjects"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2020015456
ISBN	9781469659800 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	1469659808
ISBN	9781469659817 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1469659816
ISBN	(ebook)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS152 .Z45 2020	✔ Available	Place Hold