Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Present Valor
1: Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry
2: Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3: Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
4: Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5: Frances E. W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy
6: Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman
Epilogue: W. E. B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry
Index

About the author

BRIAN YOTHERS is Professor and Chair of English at St. Louis University.

Summary

A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Yothers, Brian (Series Editor) Yothers
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2023
• EAN: 9781640140691
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-069-1
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture; Studies in American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies