From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry

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With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glaring gap. Mary Loeffelholz presents the work of nineteenth

Mary Loeffelholz is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University and the author of "Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory".

"This groundbreaking study will no doubt prove influential in shaping critical discourse to come."--Faith Barrett, Legacy "From School to Salon is exemplary in the clarity with which it both furnishes neglected poets with layered cultural contexts and puts them to use in patient, level-headed unteasings of individual poems... [The book] is full of shrewd, timely judgments and riveting acts of attention."--Debra Fried, New England Quarterly