POETRY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA by Shira Wolosky ( 9781349288809 )

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POETRY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

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ISBN 10:

1349288802

ISBN 13:

9781349288809

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

4 December, 2015

Edition:

1st ed. 2010

Series:

Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Pages:

254

Synopsis:

Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in the major concerns of American cultural life. Focusing on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, this book reveals how these issues contended and negotiated 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, offered a rhetorical arena in which civic, economic, and religious trends intersected with each other in mutual definition and investigation. With a deft hand, Shira Wolosky demonstrates the ways in which poetry was a core impulse in the formation of American identity and cultural definition.

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XII, 254 p.

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

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