{"product_id":"why-antislavery-poetry-matters-now-9781640140691","title":"Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now","description":"This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today.\u003cbr\u003eYothers examines antislavery poetry in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Camden House (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50392503877906,"sku":"9781640140691","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_613a53ba-b4d3-4d93-ae92-57e0c174d3b3.jpg?v=1728975322","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/why-antislavery-poetry-matters-now-9781640140691","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}