Johnson, Wendy Dasler, <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780809335015 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Persuasion (Rhetoric)<br/>Sentimentalism in literature.<br/>Social problems in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS147  / .A584 2016