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Informationen zum Autor Eliza Richards is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. She has published essays in Arizona Quarterly! The Yale Journal of Criticism! and Poe Studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Poe 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on texts used; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'The Poetess' and Poe's performance of the feminine; 2. Frances Sargent Osgood, Salon poetry, and the erotic voice print; 3. Sarah Helen Whitman, spiritualist poetics, and the 'Phantom Voice' of Poe; 4. Elizabeth Oakes Smith's 'Unspeakable Eloquence'; Coda: the raven's return.
