TY - GEN T1 - Why antislavery poetry matters now T2 - Studies in American literature and culture. A1 - Yothers, Brian, 1975- LA - English PP - Rochester, New York PB - Camden House YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1375640022 AB - "The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today. Yothers historicizes the poetry he examines in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, political scientists, sociologists, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical--Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville--to those whose influence has faded--Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell--to African American writers whose work has been recently rediscovered--James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper"-- OP - 296 CN - PS310.S57 Y68 2023 SN - 9781800103375 SN - 1800103379 SN - 9781800103368 SN - 1800103360 SN - 9781640140691 SN - 1640140697 KW - American poetry : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Slavery in literature. KW - Antislavery movements in literature. KW - Literature and society : United States : History : 19th century. KW - American poetry : African American authors : History and criticism. KW - Literature and morals. KW - Poésie américaine : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Esclavage dans la littérature. KW - Mouvements antiesclavagistes dans la littérature. KW - Littérature et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Poésie américaine : Auteurs noirs américains : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et morale. KW - American poetry KW - American poetry : African American authors KW - Antislavery movements in literature KW - Literature and morals KW - Literature and society KW - Slavery in literature KW - United States KW - 1800-1899 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -