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Author:

Johnson, Wendy Dasler, author.

Title:

Antebellum American women's poetry : a rhetoric of sentiment / Wendy Dasler Johnson.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Sentimentalism in literature.
Social problems in literature.
American poetry.
American poetry--Women authors.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Sentimentalism in literature.
Social problems in literature.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Lessons in logos from antebellum American women poets -- Ethos-in-process: sentimental women poets and "true womanhood" -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, black poet ventriloquist -- Reviving Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Howe's "i-s" return the gaze of men -- Audience: who reads sentimental poetry and who cares? -- Slave market matrix of Harper's critical pedagogy -- Sigourney's readers: problems of sentimental rhetoric and class -- Howe's passion flowers dialogue with a master -- Conclusion: sentimental rhetoric's poets and prospects.

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

ISBN:

080933500X
9780809335008

OCLC:

(OCoLC)921863936

LCCN:

2015050493

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)