UID:
almafu_9961386439702883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781800103368
Series Statement:
Studies in American literature and culture
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2024).
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Introduction: Present Valor -- Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry -- Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy -- Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman -- Epilogue: W.E.B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800103368
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800103368/type/BOOK
