The Poetics of Sisterly Celebrity
Sarah Hale, British Women Poets and the Gift of Transatlantic Fame
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Páraic Finnerty (0000-0002-9639-5515, University of Portsmouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-33 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2016.1213014 |
| OpenAlex | W2500483358 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay explores the celebrity of British women poets in early nineteenth-century America, when print culture on both sides of the Atlantic encouraged and catered to the desire of readers for ever-closer relationships with poets by commercially circulating and disseminating their poems, biographical information and visual representations. It focuses on Sarah Josepha Hale's participation and intervention in these cultural mechanisms by examining her gift book The Ladies' Wreath: A Selection from the Female Poetic Writers of England and America (1837) and, in particular, its expanded second edition (1839). Reinforcing, while also complicating, celebrations of women poets in this period as figures associated with gentility, domesticity, sentiment and ideals of femininity, Hale draws on the discourse of fame and celebrity to underline women poets' achievements and professionalization and the diversity, variety and intellectuality of their poems, and to position British and American women poets and readers within a transatlantic poetic sisterhood
Art · Celebrity culture · Diversity (politics · Femininity · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Popular culture · Print culture · Professionalization · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |