In Plain Sight: Nineteenth-Century American Womens Poetry and the Problem of Literary History ISBN-13: 9780198855521

ISBN-13: 9780198855521

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Socarides, Alexandra

Details: In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely as something that was done to these women but as the result of the conventions that once made the circulation of their poetry possible in the first place, this volume offers the first book-length analysis of the conventions of nineteenth-century American womens poetry. While each of the chapters focuses on a specific convention, taken together they tell the complicated story of nineteenth-century American womens poetry, tracing the spaces within literary culture where it lived and thrived, the spaces from which it was always in the process of vanishing. By reclaiming these conventions as a constitutive part of nineteenth-century American womens poetry, this book asks readers to take seriously the work these women
produced and the role their work might play in remapping American literary history.

Release Date: 06-03-2020

Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English

Number Of Pages: 224