Brian Yothers

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.
Yothers examines antislavery poetry in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800103375
• Artikelnr.: 67785274

Autorenporträt

BRIAN YOTHERS is Professor and Chair of English at St. Louis University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Present Valor 1: Anglo-American Poetry
the Transatlantic Slave Trade
and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry 2: Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton
John Pierpont
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3: Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier
William Wells Brown
and Lydia Huntley Sigourney 4: Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5: Frances E. W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching
Poetry
and Pedagogy 6: Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield
Herman Melville
and Walt Whitman Epilogue: W. E. B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry Index