Poetry and public discourse in nineteenth-century America
By: Shira Wolosky.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780230104310
Subjects: American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; National characteristics, American, in literature; Public opinion in literature
Description: "Poetry and Public Discourse explores nineteenth- century poetry as it addresses and engages in major concerns of American cultural life. It focuses on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, as these contend and negotiate with each other in the shaping of a pluralist democratic polity. Nineteenth-century American poetry, far from being the self-reflective art object of twentieth-century aesthetic theory, offers a rhetorical arena in which civic, economic, and religious trends intersect with each other in mutual definition and investigation. Poetry emerges as a core impulse in the formation of American identity and cultural definition"--
Notes: Includes index.