Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America

1. Modest Claims
Shira Wolosky

2. Emily Dickinson and American Identity
Shira Wolosky

3. Public and Private: Double Standards
Shira Wolosky

4. Genteel Rhetoric, North and South
Shira Wolosky

5. Edgar Allan Poe: Metaphysical Rupture and the Sign of Woman
Shira Wolosky

6. Claiming the Bible: Slave Spirituals and African-American Typology
Shira Wolosky

7. Women’s Bibles
Shira Wolosky

8. Fragmented Rhetoric in Battle-Pieces
Shira Wolosky

9. Plural Identities and Local Color
Shira Wolosky

10. Emma Lazarus’ American-Jewish Prophetics
Shira Wolosky

11. Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Crossing Languages
Shira Wolosky

12. Harvard Formalism
Shira Wolosky

13. Walt Whitman’s Republic of Letters
Shira Wolosky

14. Postscript: Charting American Trends: Stephen Crane
Shira Wolosky

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics