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The Political Poetess

Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

Tricia Lootens

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The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"—one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, Tricia Lootens models a nineteenth-century domestic or private sphere whose imaginary, apolitical heart is also the heart of nation and empire, and, as revisionist histories increasingly attest, is traumatized and haunted by histories of slavery. Setting aside late Victorian attempts to forget the unfulfilled, sentimental promises of early antislavery victories, The Political Poetess restores Poetess performances like Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” to view—and with them, the vitality of the Black Poetess within African-American public life.

Crossing boundaries of nation, period, and discipline to “connect the dots” of Poetess performance, Lootens demonstrates how new histories and ways of reading position poetic texts by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Mulock Craik, George Eliot, and Frances E. W. Harper as convergence points for larger engagements ranging from Germaine de Staël to G.W.F. Hegel, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, and beyond.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poetry, Emily Dickinson, Parody, Romanticism, Woolf, Harriet Martineau, Christina Rossetti, Poet, Anne K. Mellor, Separate spheres, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, George Eliot, Victorian era, Abolitionism, Stanza, Haunting (video game), N. (novella), Abjection, Felicia Hemans, Affair, Mourning, Despair (novel), Hypocrisy, Politics, Aurora Leigh, The Angel in the House, Femininity, Criticism, Writer, Feminism, Print culture, Racism, Open secret, Feminism (international relations), Epigraph (literature), Injunction, Pacifism, Sentimentality, Suffrage, Apotheosis, Poet laureate, Close reading, Irony, Militarism, Three Guineas, Literature, Ideology, Slavery, Warfare, Writing, Sophocles, Novelist, Susan Gubar, Rudyard Kipling, Isobel Armstrong, Mrs., Phillis Wheatley, Narrative, Foe (novel), Lady Lazarus, Lauren Berlant, Sylvia Plath, African Americans, Rhetoric, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Iola Leroy, Feminist literary criticism, Satire