Why antislavery poetry matters now /
"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 histor...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2023.
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| سلاسل: | Studies in American literature and culture.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv33jb5tb |
جدول المحتويات:
- Introduction: Present Valor
- Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry
- Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Frances E.W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy
- Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
- Epilogue: W.E.B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry.