TY - BOOK ID - 73083771 TI - Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity PY - 2004 SN - 0877458774 158729480X 9781587294808 9780877458777 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - American poetry KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Race in literature KW - Literature and history KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Women and literature KW - African Americans in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Slavery in literature KW - Antislavery movements in literature KW - Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Piatt, Sarah KW - Lambert, Mary Eliza Tucker KW - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett KW - Champney, Lizzie W. KW - Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth KW - Gould, Hannah Flagg KW - Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes KW - Race in literature. KW - Antislavery movements in literature. KW - African Americans in literature. KW - Race relations in literature. KW - Slavery in literature. KW - Enslaved persons in literature KW - Slavery and slaves in literature KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73083771 AB - Race and Time urges our attention to women's poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets-including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Follen, and Mary Mapes Dodge-Gray traces tensions in women's literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition. She devotes a chapter to children's verse, arguing that racial stereotypes work as "nonsense" that masks conflicts ER -