Degrees of Freedom
Bethany Hicok
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Description for Degrees of Freedom
Hardback. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 503.
In this original contribution to the history of American poetry in the twentieth century, Bethany Hicok traces the influence of the women's college on the poetic development of three American poets - Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, Elizabeth Bishop at Vassar, and Sylvia Plath at Smith. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hicok demonstrates how the women's colleges provided an important source of cultural and critical authority for American women poets and played a central role in their poetic development in the first half of the twentieth century. Hicok argues Moore, Bishop, and Plath were each part of a supportive but ... Read more
In this original contribution to the history of American poetry in the twentieth century, Bethany Hicok traces the influence of the women's college on the poetic development of three American poets - Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, Elizabeth Bishop at Vassar, and Sylvia Plath at Smith. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hicok demonstrates how the women's colleges provided an important source of cultural and critical authority for American women poets and played a central role in their poetic development in the first half of the twentieth century. Hicok argues Moore, Bishop, and Plath were each part of a supportive but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482942
SKU
V9781611482942
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About Bethany Hicok
Bethany Hicok is associate professor of English at Westminster College.
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