{"product_id":"the-political-poetess-9780691196770","title":"The Political Poetess","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Intellectual vibrant [and] important. . . . A politically committed, intellectually generous, and abundantly useful book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Julia Hansen, \u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An unforgettable account of female poets as blazingly politically involved. Lootens turns the Poetess on her head in \u003ci\u003eThe Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres\u003c\/i\u003e. No longer a pale, lovely, swooning maiden, Lootens’s Poetess is a person of color, a person deeply imbricated in transatlantic antislavery rhetoric, a woman who speaks for a nation. In bravura rereadings of well-known poems (and some not known at all), Lootens makes us see anew by interrogating 'how national sentimentality thinks.'\"\u003cb\u003e---Talia Schaffer, \u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lootens marshals a considerable number of cultural sources, literary and not, to build a thorough case for her reexamination of the connections between racial and separate spheres ideology. . . . At its ambitious best, \u003ci\u003eThe Political Poetess \u003c\/i\u003esuspends the boundaries that continue to haunt our current critical lives: between black and white, public and private, British and American, past and present.\"\u003cb\u003e---Amanda Adams, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Periodicals Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In all these ways, the \u003ci\u003ePolitical Poetess \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes integral to the revisionist history of the female literary tradition emphasising national anxieties. . . . [Lootens] reads with acumen and diligently researches the historical circumstances of poetic production.\"\u003cb\u003e---Georgia Gotsi, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359111381335,"sku":"9780691196770","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691196770.jpg?v=1754123630","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-political-poetess-9780691196770","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}