| Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Wolosky, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230104312 ISBN-13: 9780230104310 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 811.409 |
| LCCN: 2010009098 |
| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.05 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in the major concerns of American cultural life. Focusing on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, this book reveals how these issues contended and negotiated with each other in the shaping of a pluralist democratic polity. Nineteenth-century American poetry, far from being the self-reflective art object of twentieth-century aesthetic theory, offered a rhetorical arena in which civic, economic, and religious trends intersected with each other in mutual definition and investigation. With a deft hand, Shira Wolosky demonstrates the ways in which poetry was a core impulse in the formation of American identity and cultural definition. |