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04436aam a2200529 i 4500 001 5B5171EE2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230418t20232023nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022058476 020 $a 1640140697 020 $a 9781640140691 035 $a (OCoLC)1355807336 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS310.S57 $b Y68 2023 082 00 $a 811/.3093552 $2 23/eng/20230525 100 1 $a Yothers, Brian, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Why antislavery poetry matters now / $c Brian Yothers. 264 1 $a Rochester, New York : $b Camden House, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 296 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in American literature and culture 520 $a "The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is 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. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today. Yothers historicizes the poetry he examines in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, political scientists, sociologists, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical--Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville--to those whose influence has faded--Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell--to African American writers whose work has been recently rediscovered--James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a American poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Slavery in literature. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a American poetry $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and morals. 650 7 $a American poetry $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807348 650 7 $a American poetry $x African American authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807349 650 7 $a Antislavery movements in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810811 650 7 $a Literature and morals $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000085 650 7 $a Literature and society $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Slavery in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120515 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Yothers, Brian, 1975- $t Why antislavery poetry matters now. $d Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023 $z 9781800103375 $w (OCoLC)1375640022 $w (OCoLC)1375640022 830 0 $a Studies in American literature and culture 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012424.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B5171EE2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search