Antebellum American women's poetry : a rhetoric of sentiment /
Johnson, Wendy Dasler,
Antebellum American women's poetry : a rhetoric of sentiment / Wendy Dasler Johnson. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Studies in rhetorics and feminisms .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Lessons in logos from antebellum American women poets -- Ethos-in-process: sentimental women poets and "true womanhood" -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, black poet ventriloquist -- Reviving Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Howe's "i-s" return the gaze of men -- Audience: who reads sentimental poetry and who cares? -- Slave market matrix of Harper's critical pedagogy -- Sigourney's readers: problems of sentimental rhetoric and class -- Howe's passion flowers dialogue with a master -- Conclusion: sentimental rhetoric's poets and prospects.
9780809335015
American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Sentimentalism in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS147 / .A584 2016
Antebellum American women's poetry : a rhetoric of sentiment / Wendy Dasler Johnson. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Studies in rhetorics and feminisms .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Lessons in logos from antebellum American women poets -- Ethos-in-process: sentimental women poets and "true womanhood" -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, black poet ventriloquist -- Reviving Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Howe's "i-s" return the gaze of men -- Audience: who reads sentimental poetry and who cares? -- Slave market matrix of Harper's critical pedagogy -- Sigourney's readers: problems of sentimental rhetoric and class -- Howe's passion flowers dialogue with a master -- Conclusion: sentimental rhetoric's poets and prospects.
9780809335015
American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Sentimentalism in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS147 / .A584 2016