Paula Bernat's anthology, based on seven years of pioneering archival research, establishes nineteenth-century American women's poetry as a major field in American literature and American women's history.
About the Author
Paula Bernat Bennett is the author of Nineteenth Century American Women Poets: An Anthology, published by Wiley.
Features
Gives special attention to poetry devoted to women's issues - the evolution of feminist consciousness, the expression of woman's subjectivities, and the emergence of the "new woman".
Previously neglected avant-garde poetry from the last decades of the century, as found in penny magazines of the period, is also thoroughly covered.
