Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

ISBN-13: 9780521832816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 258 str.

Eliza Richards; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock

Opis

Edgar Allan Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his female contemporaries. Richards interprets and re-evaluates the work of three important and largely forgotten women poets in the context of nineteenth-century lyric practices: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on texts used; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'The Poetess' and Poe's performance of the feminine; 2. Frances Sargent Osgood, Salon poetry, and the erotic voice print; 3. Sarah Helen Whitman, spiritualist poetics, and the 'Phantom Voice' of Poe; 4. Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 'Unspeakable Eloquence'; Coda: the raven's return.