{"product_id":"gender-and-the-poetics-of-reception-in-poes-circle-paperback-9780521174398","title":"Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle (Paperback) 9780521174398","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichards revises the prevailing portrayal of Poe as an isolated idiosyncratic genius, showing how he worked with contemporary female poets.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEliza Richards (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521174398, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 October 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: '… meticulously researched. Richards has drawn together an impressive amount of detail about the social networks and gendered values of the literary marketplace governing the transmission of poetry in nineteenth-century America. … the book will appeal broadly to beginning as well as advanced readers in gender studies, women's literary history and American cultural studies.' Journal of American Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePoe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius who was unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. In this text, Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his female contemporaries. Richards demonstrates that he staged his performance of tortured isolation in the salons and ephemeral publications of New York City in conjunction with prominent women poets whose work he sought to surpass. She introduces and interprets the work of three important and largely forgotten women poets: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Richards re-evaluates the work of these writers, and of nineteenth-century lyric practices more generally, by examining poems in the context of their circulation and reception within nineteenth-century print culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of American print culture as well as specialists of nineteenth-century literature and poetry.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIllustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on texts used\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'The Poetess' and Poe's performance of the feminine\u003cbr\u003e 2. Frances Sargent Osgood, Salon poetry, and the erotic voice print\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sarah Helen Whitman, spiritualist poetics, and the 'Phantom Voice' of Poe\u003cbr\u003e 4. Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 'Unspeakable Eloquence'\u003cbr\u003e Coda: the raven's return.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006759325976,"sku":"9780521174398","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521174398i_9dbc1de6-01d7-4196-9989-c39a80a4bdb8.jpg?v=1691373008","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/gender-and-the-poetics-of-reception-in-poes-circle-paperback-9780521174398","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}