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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

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Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521145805
ISBN13: 9780521145800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 1 2011
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have been devoted to the verse of groups such as Native Americans, African-Americans and women. This volume offers essays covering these groups as well as more familiar figures such as Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow and Melville. The contents are divided between broad topics of concern such as the poetry of the Civil War or the development of the 'poetess' role and articles featuring specific authors such as Edgar Allan Poe or Sarah Piatt. In the past two decades a growing body of scholarship has been engaged in reconceptualizing and re-evaluating this largely neglected area of study in US literary history - this Companion reflects and advances this spirit of revisionism.

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