"The Poetess" and Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets

Authors

  • Virginia Jackson Tufts University
  • Eliza C. Richards

Keywords:

19th-century literature, women poets, American literature, transatlantic literature, poetry

Abstract

This essay delineates nineteenth-century women writers' relationship to the transatlantic figure of the poetess, on the way triangulating connections as well as disarticulations among high and popular, British and American literatures.

Author Biographies

Virginia Jackson, Tufts University

Associate Professor, Department of English, Tufts University

Eliza C. Richards

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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