Title: Antebellum American women's poetry : a rhetoric of sentiment /
Authors: Johnson, Wendy Dasler,
Year: 2016
Subjects: American poetry Women authors History and criticism; American poetry History and criticism; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Sentimentalism in literature.; Social problems in literature.; American poetry; American poetry Women authors; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Sentimentalism in literature.; Social problems in literature.
Contents: 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.