Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521832816)

Edgar Allan Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his female contemporaries. Richards interprets and re-evaluates the work of three important and largely forgotten women poets in the context of nineteenth-century lyric practices: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.

Author: Eliza Richards
ISBN-10: 0521832810
ISBN-13: 9780521832816
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2004
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d