Nightingale's Burden Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900

Name: Nightingale's Burden Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900
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ISBN: 9780253340658

ISBN-10: 0253340659

ISBN-13: 9780253340658

Edition: 1983

Authors: Cheryl Walker

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In this evocative exploration, Cheryl Walker shows that there is a distinct tradition of women's poetry in America -- one that the poets themselves have not always been fully aware of -- and that individual poems can be read as manifestations of that tradition. Philomela, the nightingale of literary mythology, serves as a model for women poets, representing simultaneously both their particular forms of power and the frustrating powerlessness imposed on them by the cultural norms for women. The author identifies a number of archetypal motifs: the power fantasy, the sanctuary poem, the renunciation poem, the forbidden lover poem, the "burden of beauty," and the "secret sorrow." Among the…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/22/1983
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Methodology and Mystery 1: Anne Bradstreet


Founding the Tradition 2: The Poetess at Large


A Composite Biography: Early Nineteenth-Century Women Poets


Tradition and the Individual Talent 4: Helen Hunt Jackson and Emily Dickinson


Brief, Transitory Hour 5: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and Louise Imogen Guiney


Conclusion 6: The Mythical Nineteenth Century and Its Heritage


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index