Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 190
Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Contributors explore motherhood, education, reform, loss and mourn
Perhaps the novelists crowded them out, or twentieth-century modernist critics thought Whitman, Dickinson and perhaps Poe would suffice as representative poets. However, in over 20 articles, the contr
