Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America

By Shira Wolosky

Book Overview

Preface: The Claims of Rhetoric * PART I: Modest Claims * Writing Etiquette * Emily Dickinson: Crises of American Identity * Public and Private: Reconsidered * PART II: Claiming the Bible * Slave Spirituals and Black Typology * Women's Bibles * Herman Melville: Fractured Rhetoric in Battle-Pieces * PART III: Poetic Languages * Genteel Poets: Rhetoric North and South * Edgar Allan Poe: Repetition, Women, and Signs * Stephen Crane: American Economies * Santayana and Harvard Formalism * PART IV: Plural Identities * Local-Color Poetry * Crossing Languages in Paul Laurence Dunbar * Emma Lazarus: An American-Jewish Typology * Walt Whitman's Republic of Letters * Postscript: Charting American Trends

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349288802
• ISBN13: 9781349288809
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"