
Lydia Sigourney
by Lydia Sigourney
Title:
Lydia Sigourney
Author:
Lydia Sigourney
Edited by:
Kelly, Gary
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
354 pages
Publisher:
Broadview Press Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781551116204
EAN:
9781551116204
Publication Date:
28/08/2008
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
534
Dimensions (mm):
216 x 142 x 18
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) was the most widely read and respected pre-Civil War American woman poet in the English-speaking world. In a half-century career, Sigourney produced a wide range of poetry and prose envisaging the United States as a new kind of republic with a unique mission in history, in which women like herself had a central role. This edition contributes to the current recovery of Sigourney and her republican vision from the oblivion into which they were cast by the aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of a male-dominated American “national” literary canon, and the aesthetics of Modernism.In this Broadview edition, a representative selection of poetry and prose from across her career illustrates Sigourney’s national vision and the diversity of forms she used to promote it. In the appendices, letters and documents illustrate her challenges and working methods in what she called her “kitchen in Parnassus.”










