Gender and the poetics of reception in Poe's circle

Author(s)

• Richards, Eliza

Bibliographic Information

Gender and the poetics of reception in Poe's circle

Eliza Richards

（Cambridge studies in American literature and culture）

Cambridge University Press, 2004

• : hbk

Note

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 1997

Bibliography: p. 221-230

Includes index

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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. In this text, 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 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 of 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 of nineteenth-century literature and poetry.

Table of Contents

• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on texts used
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. 'The Poetess' and Poe's performance of the feminine
• 2. Frances Sargent Osgood, Salon poetry, and the erotic voice print
• 3. Sarah Helen Whitman, spiritualist poetics, and the 'Phantom Voice' of Poe
• 4. Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 'Unspeakable Eloquence'
• Coda: the raven's return.

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• NCID: BA69839761
• ISBN:
  • 0521832810
• LCCN: 2003069737
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 238 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS255.N5
  • DC22 : 811/.30997471
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Friends and associates
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Contemporaries
  • LCSH : Authorship -- Sex differences
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00225445