Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America

Author/Contributor(s):	Zellinger, Elissa
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	11/23/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion.