Lydia Sigourney : critical essays and cultural views

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Lydia Sigourney : critical essays and cultural views

Title remainder

critical essays and cultural views

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth Petrino

Contributor

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

Editor

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

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
• Literature and society
• Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Political and social views
• Politics and literature
• Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
• Sigourney, L. H., (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
• Sigourney, L. H., (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Sigourney, L. H., (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Political and social views
• United States
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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"

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

811/.3

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS2833

LC item number

.L93 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography