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BL
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724037
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b543755
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| Main Entry
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Shira Wolosky.
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Poetry and public discourse in nineteenth-century America\ Shira Wolosky.
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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| Series Statement
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Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
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(xii, 254 p.).
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0230113001
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: 9780230113008
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Preface: The Claims of Rhetoric * PART I: Modest Claims * Writing Etiquette * Emily Dickinson: Crises of American Identity * Public and Private: Reconsidered * PART II: Claiming the Bible * Slave Spirituals and Black Typology * Women's Bibles * Herman Melville: Fractured Rhetoric in Battle-Pieces * PART III: Poetic Languages * Genteel Poets: Rhetoric North and South * Edgar Allan Poe: Repetition, Women, and Signs * Stephen Crane: American Economies * Santayana and Harvard Formalism * PART IV: Plural Identities * Local-Color Poetry * Crossing Languages in Paul Laurence Dunbar * Emma Lazarus: An American-Jewish Typology * Walt Whitman's Republic of Letters * Postscript: Charting American Trends
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| Abstract
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Arguing against the perception of poetry as an elite discourse, Shira Wolosky explores the ways that Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, and others shaped nineteenth-century American cultural debate.
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American poetry -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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PS316.S557 2010
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Shira Wolosky Weiss
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