{"product_id":"poets-in-the-public-sphere-the-emancipatory-project-of-american-womens-poetry-1800-1900-9780691026442","title":"Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased entirely on archival research, \u003ci\u003ePoets in the Public Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e traces the emergence of the \"New Woman\" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that \"ordinary\" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed. In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Bernat Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.08w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691026442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaula Bernat Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century American Women Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Life a Loaded Gun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmily Dickinson: Woman Poet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087119757427,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8c27a69e-8d27-4d41-953d-191bfd64a456.jpg?v=1652538122","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/poets-in-the-public-sphere-the-emancipatory-project-of-american-womens-poetry-1800-1900-9780691026442","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}