Title: Gender and the poetics of reception in Poe's circle
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.
Subjects: American Poets, American poetry, Authorship, Contemporaries, Criticism and interpretation, Friends and associates, History, History and criticism, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Sex differences, Women and literature, Women authors, Horror tales, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Gender identity in literature, Poetics, Relations with women
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), United States
People: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806-1893), Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811-1850), Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)
Time periods: 19th century