| In Plain Sight: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Literary History Contributor(s): Socarides, Alexandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198855524 ISBN-13: 9780198855521 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.4 |
| LCCN: 2019950600 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely as something that was done to these women but as the result of the conventions that once made the circulation of their poetry possible in the first place, this volume offers the first book-length analysis of the conventions of nineteenth-century American women's poetry. While each of the chapters focuses on a specific convention, taken together they tell the complicated story of nineteenth-century American women's poetry, tracing the spaces within literary culture where it lived and thrived, the spaces from which it was always in the process of vanishing. By reclaiming these conventions as a constitutive part of nineteenth-century American women's poetry, this book asks readers to take seriously the work these women produced and the role their work might play in remapping American literary history. |
