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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Yothers, Brian

Hardcover

Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 15

Literary CriticismCivil War Period (1850-1877)Poetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1640140697
ISBN13: 9781640140691
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Jun 20 2023
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.

The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today.

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