Antebellum American women's poetry : a rhetoric of sentiment / Wendy Dasler Johnson.

Author: Johnson, Wendy Dasler, author.

Imprint:Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]

Descriptionix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction -- Lessons in logos from antebellum American women poets -- Ethos-in-process: sentimental women poets and "true womanhood" -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, black poet ventriloquist -- Reviving Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Howe's "i-s" return the gaze of men -- Audience: who reads sentimental poetry and who cares? -- Slave market matrix of Harper's critical pedagogy -- Sigourney's readers: problems of sentimental rhetoric and class -- Howe's passion flowers dialogue with a master -- Conclusion: sentimental rhetoric's poets and prospects.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index.

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