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Antebellum American Women's Poetry
Wendy Dasler Johnson
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Description for Antebellum American Women's Poetry
Paperback. This book explores sentimental poetry, an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre Civil War American discourse. At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience might be labeled promiscuous, many women presented their views through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect." Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre–Civil War American discourse.
In this volume, author Wendy Dasler Johnson considers the logos, ethos, and pathos—aims, writing personae, and audience appeal—of poems by African American abolitionist Frances Watkins Harper, working-class ... Read more
At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre–Civil War American discourse.
In this volume, author Wendy Dasler Johnson considers the logos, ethos, and pathos—aims, writing personae, and audience appeal—of poems by African American abolitionist Frances Watkins Harper, working-class ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809335008
SKU
V9780809335008
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About Wendy Dasler Johnson
Wendy Dasler Johnson is an associate professor of English at Washington State University Vancouver, Canada, whose writing and research focus on women and cultural rhetorics. She has published articles in Rhetoric Review, South Atlantic Review, Rhetorica, Journal of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, and other journals.
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