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Lydia Sigourney : critical essays and cultural views

Kete, Mary Louise, editor, Petrino, Elizabeth A., 1962- editor

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\"During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, travel writer, essayist, and educator. While serious critical attention to her work languished following her death and into the twentieth century, a growing number of critics and writers have reexamined Sigourney and her large body of writing and have given her a central place in the \"new canon.\" This first collection of original essays devoted to the poet's work puts many of the best scholars on Sigourney together in one place and in conversation with one another. The volume includes critical essays examining her literary texts as well as essays that unpack Sigourney's participation in the cultural movements of her day. Holding powerful opinions about the role of women in society, Sigourney was not afraid to advocate against government policies that, in her view, undermined the promise of America, even as she was held up as a paragon of American womanhood and middle-class rectitude. The resulting portrait promises to engage readers who wish to know more about Sigourney's writing, her career, and the causes that inspired her. Along with the volume editors, contributors include Ann Beebe, Paula Bernat Bennett, Janet Dean, Sean Epstein-Corbin, Annie Finch, Gary Kelly, Paul Lauter, Amy J. Lueck, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, Jennifer Putzi, Angela Sorby, and Joan Wry\" Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Subject: Sigourney, L. H. 1791-1865 Criticism and interpretation. / Sigourney, L. H. 1791-1865 Political and social views. / Women and literature United States History 19th century. / Politics and literature United States History 19th century. / Literature and society United States History 19th century.
• ISBN: 9781625343444, 9781625343451

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS2833.L93 2018	1	BOOK	GENERAL