Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America

by Elissa Zellinger and Zellinger

Book Overview

In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by omitting women,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469659816
• ISBN13: 9781469659817
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"