Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle - Couverture souple

Richards, Eliza

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521174392 ISBN 13 : 9780521174398

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Richards revises the prevailing portrayal of Poe as an isolated idiosyncratic genius, showing how he worked with contemporary female poets.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

Review of the hardback: '... meticulously researched. Richards has drawn together an impressive amount of detail about the social networks and gendered values of the literary marketplace governing the transmission of poetry in nineteenth-century America. ... the book will appeal broadly to beginning as well as advanced readers in gender studies, women's literary history and American cultural studies.' Journal of American Studies

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521174392
• ISBN 13: 9780521174398
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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