Title Lyrical strains : liberalism and women's poetry in nineteenth-century America / Elissa Zellinger.

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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

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Description	1 online resource
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Lyrical subjects and liberal publics -- The poetess and the politics of profession -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith's lyrical activism -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's two-body problem -- Making the modernist poetess: Edna St. Vincent Millay -- E. Pauline Johnson's poetics acts.
Summary	"In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by omitting women, the enslaved, and Native peoples. The conventions of poetic reception only redoubled the sense that liberal selfhood defined its boundaries by refusing raced and gendered others. Yet Zellinger argues that it is precisely the poetics of the excluded that offer insights into the dynamic processes that came to form the modern liberal and lyric subjects"-- Provided by publisher
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	American poetry -- 19th century -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Lyric poetry -- 19th century -- Women authors.
	Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
	American poetry -- Women authors
	Liberalism
	Politics and literature
	United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History
Other Form:	Print version: Zellinger, Elissa. Lyrical strains. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 9781469659800 (DLC) 2020015456 (OCoLC)1147899756
ISBN	9781469659831 (electronic bk.)
	1469659832 (electronic bk.)
	9781469659800
	1469659808
	9781469659817
	1469659816

Title Lyrical strains : liberalism and women's poetry in nineteenth-century America / Elissa Zellinger.

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