Gender and the poetics of reception in Poe's circle
By: Eliza Richards.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Friends and associates.; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Contemporaries.; American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.; Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 19th century.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Description: "Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated, idiosyncratic genius who was unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his female contemporaries. Richards demonstrates that he staged his performance of tortured isolation in the salons and ephemeral publications of New York City in conjunction with prominent women poets whose work he both emulated and sought to surpass. She introduces and interprets the work of three important and largely forgotten women poets: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.

Richards re-evaluates the work of these writers, and nineteenth-century lyric practices more generally, by examining poems in the context of their circulation and reception within nineteenth-century print culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of American print culture as well as specialists in nineteenth-century literature and poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 1997.