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The Right to Write

The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

Kathrynn Seidler Engberg

The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women used their positions within society to network themselves into publication. Each woman represents a unique way in which a majority of early American women negotiated their roles as both women and writers while influencing the political and social fabric of the new republic. Examining the context in which these women worked, Engberg provides a window into the social conditions and aesthetic decisions they negotiated in order to write. This is not simply a historical and literary examination of the field of literary production; this study provides new conceptions of early American women's writing that are valuable to feminist inquiry. Engberg's research is innovative and recaptures a part of early American literary history.
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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)
Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Literary Criticism / Feminist
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

The Right to Write

The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

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Paperback
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Summary
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  • The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women used their positions within society to network themselves into publication. Each woman represents a unique way in which a majority of early American women negotiated their roles as both women and writers while influencing the political and social fabric of the new republic. Examining the context in which these women worked, Engberg provides a window into the social conditions and aesthetic decisions they negotiated in order to write. This is not simply a historical and literary examination of the field of literary production; this study provides new conceptions of early American women's writing that are valuable to feminist inquiry. Engberg's research is innovative and recaptures a part of early American literary history.
Details
Details
  • 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)
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Literary Criticism / Feminist
Author
Author
  • Kathrynn Seidler Engberg, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Alabama A&M University and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents

  • 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

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