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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It will be required reading for advanced scholars of Anglo-American poetry and women's writing."--Choice
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Slaves, Spheres, Poetess Poetics 1 Section 1 Racializing the Poetess: Haunting "Separate Spheres" 1 Antislavery Afterlives: Changing the Subject / Haunting the Poetess 29 2 "Not Another 'Poetess' ": Feminist Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, and the Racialization of Suicide 54 Section 2 Suspending Spheres: The Violent Structures of Patriotic Pacifism 3 Spheres, Suspending Disbelief: Hegel's Antigone, Craik's Crimea, Woolf's Three Guineas 83 4 Turning and Burning: Sentimental Criticism, Casabiancas, and the Click of the Cliche 116 Section 3 Transatlantic Occasions: Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Poetics at the Limits 5 Teaching Curses, Teaching Nations: Abolition Time and the Recoils of Antislavery Poetics 153 6 Harper's Hearts: "Home Is Never Natural or Safe" 180 Notes 213 Works Cited 283 Acknowledgments 313 Index 319
