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At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations,  Antebellum American Women's Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment  explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre–Civil War American discourse. Considering the logos , ethos , and pathos —aims, writing personae, and audience appeal—of poems by African American abolitionist Frances Watkins Harper, working-class prophet Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and feminist socialite Julia Ward Howe, Wendy Dasler Johnson demonstrates that sentimental poetry was an inportant component of antebellum social activism. She articulates the ethos of the poems of Harper, who presents herself as a properly domestic black woman, nevertheless stepping boldly into Northern pulpits to insist slavery be abolished; the poetry of Sigourney, whose speaker is a feisty, working-class, ambiguously gendered prophet; and the works of Howe

Author

Wendy Dasler Johnson

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809335015

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Poetry