Brian Yothers 
Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now [PDF ebook] 

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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, Du Bois, 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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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 308 ● ISBN 9781800103368 ● 出版者 Boydell & Brewer Ltd ● 发布时间 2023 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8927830 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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