University Press of America
Pages: 110
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7618-4609-3 • Paperback • December 2009 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
978-0-7618-4610-9 • eBook • August 2009 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Kathrynn Seidler Engberg, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Alabama A&M University and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction: Remember the Ladies
Chapter 4
Chapter 1: Anne Bradstreet
Chapter 5 I. To Be a Woman in Print: Prefatory Politics
Chapter 6 II. From Coterie to Print: The Promiscuity of Public Exchange
Chapter 7 III. To Play the Rex
Chapter 8 IV. Vexed by Vanity, She Speaks Her Mind
Chapter 9
Chapter 2: Phillis Wheatley
Chapter 10 I. To Be a Slave in Print: Prefatory Politics
Chapter 11 II. The Power Of Passivity: Phillis's Poetics
Chapter 12 III. In Vain the Feather'd Warblers Sing
Chapter 13 Conclusion: Female Poets in Nineteenth Century America
Chapter 14 Works Cited