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Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’S Circle Eliza Richards Index More Information Cambridge University Press 0521832810 - Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle Eliza Richards Index More information Index abortive poetics 171–172, 184–186 Baym, Nina 12, 24, 67 Abrams, M. H. 154 Beadle’s Monthly 183, 191 Adams, John Quincy 37 beauty 16–18, 37–38, 39–40, 41, 44, 56, 86, 116 Adorno, Theodore 18 Bennett, Andrew 200 Alcott, Bronson 9 Bennett, Paula 24, 25, 201, 202, 217 Allen, Hervey 29 Berlant, Lauren and the “female complaint” 6–7, American Antiquarian Society 212 201, 208, 217 American Metropolitan 126 Bhabha, Homi 19 American Renaissance 207 birds, song and poetry 49–50 Anthony, Susan B. 120, 155, 176 Blackwell, Anna 40, 142 “anxiety of influence” see Bloom, Harold Blackwell, Elizabeth 142 appropriation 46–47 Blasing, Mutlu 200, 205 Baudelaire’s appropriation of Poe 55 Bloom, Harold 218 critical appropriation of Poe 145 “anxiety of influence” 20, 22, 123, 178 men’s appropriation of women’s poetry 5, 52, Bloor, A. C. 9 90–91, 156 Bonaparte, Marie 200, 205 Poe’s appropriation of women poets 50–52, body 6 94, 191–197 female body 9, 30–31, 38–39, 45–47, 64, women poets’ appropriation of men, Poe 168 82–84, 92–93, 94–96 attribution 2–3, 5, 49, 75–76, 104–105, 121–122, male body 56–58 147 see also embodiment and disembodiment audience see readers, reception Booth, Edwin 191 authenticity 3, 16, 19–20, 22–24, 52–53, 54, 77, borrowing see appropriation 107, 197 Boston Lyceum 1 of women poets 23–25, 56–58 Boston Quarterly 110 authority see literary authority Botta, Vincenzo authorship 2, 56, 86–88, 89–92, 138, 140–141 Bradley, Katherine 122 female authorship 36–37, 39, 79–80 Braude, Ann 120 gender of 6, 165–168 Bremer, Frederika 10 male authorship 178–179, 193 Broadway Journal 11, 14, 26, 92 spiritualist forms of 120–122 Brodhead, Richard 210 see also attribution Bronfen, Elisabeth 200, 205 Brooks, Maria 37, 150, 209 Bailey, William Whitman 111 Brown, Gillian 207 Baker, Noelle 216 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 35, 36–37, 130, 206 Barnes, Elizabeth 24 “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship” 1, 39, 49–50, Barrett, Elizabeth see Browning, Elizabeth 114, 170, 206 Barrett Brownson, Orestes 110 Battersby, Christine 218 Bryant, William Cullen 9, 14, 29, 62, 77, Baudelaire, Charles on Poe 31, 55–58, 145, 117, 156 207 Burgett, Bruce 24 231 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521832810 - Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle Eliza Richards Index More information 232 Index Burns, Robert 118, 121 corporeality see body, disembodiment, Bush, George 113 embodiment Butler, Judith 19, 207 Cott, Nancy F. 201 Byron, George Gordon, Baron 12, 31–32, Coultrap-Mcquin, Susan 208 118 Crain, Patricia 209 cultural memory 105, 130, 155, 196 see also Cameron, Sharon 207, 214 erasure, forgetting, remembering, Capron, E. W. 117 transmission Carol, Kate see Osgood, Frances Sargent cultural transmission see erasure, forgetting, Cary, Alice and Phoebe 9, 10, 118, 151 remembering, transmission celebrity 2, 28–30, 130, 183, 191 Curtis, George William 110, 140–141 female celebrity 29–30, 73–74, 75, 76–80, Cushman, Stephen 199 197 see also reputation, self-promotion Davidson, Cathy 201 Charvat, William 11–12, 17 Davidson sisters [Lucretia and ?] 199 Chivers, Thomas Holly 124 Davidson, Reverend Dr. 90, 131, 137, 139 circulation see poetry in circulation; print Davis, Andrew Jackson 113 culture Dayan, Joan 206, 207, 213 Clarke, Thomas Cottrell 137 death Cleopatra 60 figure of dead infant 66 Coad, Oral Sumner 213 figure of dead woman 30–31, 45–47, 50–52, 169 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 27, 118, 156, De Jong, Mary 93, 200 177 Democratic Review 110 “Kubla Khan” 174 Derrida, Jacques 145 “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” desire 50 172–175 feminine desire 35 collectivity 20, 22, 147 readerly desire 77–79, 92 female collectivity 155, 176 romantic desire 82 Collyer, Robert 113 Diamond, Elin 203 Columbia Magazine Dickens, Charles 107 commodification of women 6–7 Dickinson, Emily 25 commodification of poetry 76–80 Dickinson, Susan E. 156 women as traders in cultural commodities Didier, Eugene 32, 137, 144, 145, 205 9–10 disembodiment 82–84, 109 see also body, communication embodiment communication networks 126–137, 197 Dobson, Joanne 25, 204 lack of communication 189 domesticity 7, 47, 67 poetry as a form of 6, 25, 150 domestic verse 175, 176–177, 180 spirit communication 116–126 see also private, public, sentimentality telepathic XXX Doten, Lizzie 118, 121–122, 124–126 competition Poems From the Inner Life 122 between male and female poets 22, 28–30, 38, “Resurrexi” 122, 125 54, 152–153, 154 Douglas, Ann 208 between Poe and women poets 42, 46–55, 93, 169–172 echoes 19–20, 46–47, 107, 140, 141 consumption see poetic production and Elbert, Monika 201 consumption elegy 66–68 see mourning conventionality and originality 3, 44, 47, Ellet, Elizabeth 29, 75, 93, 211 48–52 Ellison, Julie 22, 24, 81, 201, 206, 210 gender conventions in poetry 6–7, 23, Elmer, Jonathan 5, 147, 208, 209 165–168, 198 embodiment, poetic 4, 7, 37, 39–40, 92–105, 109, see genericism, ideality, originality 119 see body, disembodiment Conrad, Robert 203, 217 Embury, Emma 9, 11, 29, 80 Cooper, Edith 122 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 27, 58, 110, 176, 181, 187, Cooper, James Fenimore 62, 117 188, 203, 207, 220 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521832810 - Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle Eliza Richards Index More information Index 233 and American literary history 20 Gillespie, William Mitchell 90–91 and genius 177–178 Godey’s Lady’s Book 2, 12, 17, 155 and poetry 15, 20–22 Gould Hannah 29 and salons 9, 10 Gould, Sarah 120–121, 123, 124, 133–136, 207 works “To Sarah Helen Whitman” 135–136 “Experience” 177 “The Serpent Horror” 133–135 “The Poet” 20 Gowans, William 137 “Quotation and Originality” 20–22 Graham’s Magazine 2, 12, 14, 29, 74, 79, 82, 90, emotion 16–17, 141 93, 155, 165, 166, 203 literary 24–25 Gray, Thomas 70 masculine 52–53 Greeley, Horace 11, 37, 113, 117 see also sentimentality Greenwood, Grace 80, 91–92, 113 ephemerality of women poets 2–3, 104–106, Greusz, Kirsten Silva 25, 201, 204 150–153, 197–198 Griswold, Rufus 11, 16–18, 62, 74, 75, 192, 202 erasure of women poets 3, 7, 55–59, 151, 155, 158, and Oakes Smith 165 191 and Osgood 70–71, 89, 93 Eve 159–165 as Poe’s literary executor 111, 141, 142 Eveleth, George 107, 137–140 works Evening Mirror 176 Female Poets of America 14, 38, 79–80, 149–152 fancy 62, 80–86, 89 “Ludwig” obituary 32–33 Felman, Shoshana 205 Poets and Poetry of America 14, 37 feminine poetics 38, 152–153, 155 see also masculine poetics Haight, Gordon 209 Fern, Fanny Hale, Sarah Josepha 37, 109 Field, Michael Halleck, Fitz-Greene 77, 212 Fields, James 203 Halttunen, Karen 56 Fisher, Benjamin Franklin 205, 208 handwriting 85–88, 139, 150 see also manuscript forgetting women poets 50, 105, 152, 198 see also Harris, Thomas Lake 118, 119, 124, 125 erasure, memory, remembering, Hawthorne, Nathaniel 16, 36 transmission Hay, John 110 Forrest, Mary 132–133, 179–181 Hedrick, Joan 201 Foster, G. G. 15 Helfenstein, Ernest see Oakes Smith, Fox sisters 116–117 Elizabeth Fuller, Hiram 11, 62, 90 Hemans, Felicia 12, 23, 29, 109 Fuller, Margaret 10, 77, 110, 113, 155, 206 Hendler, Glenn 24, 201, 202 female genius 10–11, 189 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 117 Hoffman, Charles Fenno 77, 157 Gallagher, Catherine 217 Hoffman, Daniel 55, 58–59, 205, 206 Gauld, Alan 205 Hollander, John 214 genericism 27, 64, 67, 68, 130 see also Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. 117 conventionality, ideality Home Journal 2, 11, 91, 129 genius 107–109, 147, 191–193 Houghton, Mary Louise Shew 142 and collective identity 122 Howe, Julia Ward, “The Salon in America” 7–9, gender and genius 33, 38, 39, 40, 41–42, 55–58, 11 157–165, 181–184, 189–190 Hutchinson, Anna 178 and mimicry 18–27, 154, 197 romantic genius theory 123–124, 140–141, ideality 14–15 177–178 ideal of womanhood 179, 183 see also Inspiration, Mimicry, Originality “poetess ideal” 16–17, 37–38, 79–80, 154–155 genre of poetry 3, 6, 14 poetry as heavenly ideal 119–120 gender and genre 16, 49 imagination 20, 81, 90–91, 115, 147–148 generic constraints of the poetess 154, 191, 197 imitation 29, 48–52, 139 see also mimesis, genre of criticism 52 mimicry Gill, William Fearing 137 influence 20–22, 55–59, 121–122, 142–147, 197 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521832810 - Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle Eliza Richards Index More information 234 Index Ingram, John 27, 111, 126, 131, 137, 141–147, 193, McGill, Meredith 5, 199, 206, 211, 215 216 Mabbott, Thomas Ollive 52, 206, 213 inspiration 18, 20, 50, 54, 62, 81 magazines 73–74, 77–79, 150 romantic and spiritualist theories of 108, magazine writing style 80 123–124 poetry in 11–15, 62–64, 86–88 spiritualist theory of 120–122, 174 women and 90 see also muse, possession Mallarme,´ Stephane´ 27, 111, 137 interiority 70–71, 77–79, 108–109, 135–136, 163, manuscript 72–73, 149, 194–197 see also 184–187 handwriting 72–73, 149, 194–197 intimacy in print 11, 65, 77, 88, 123, 126 marketplace, literary 14–15, 31, 72 Irigaray, Luce 19–20, 203 women poets’ dominance in 55–59, 76–80, Irving Washington 62 149–152 marriage 177–178, 184–187 Jackson, Virginia 25, 154–155, 197, 199, 204, 211, masculine poetics 35, 52–59, 137, 152–153, 155, 217, 218 165–168, 169, 196 James, Henry 104–105 masculine public sphere 64 Jehlen, Myra 5 Maslan, Mark 18, 20, 108, 210 Jones, Buford 52 mass culture 147 mass production 141 see also production Kasson, John 9 mass publication 77 Keats, John 81, 118, 141 aesthetics of 86–88 Kelley, Mary 201, 208 and women poets 65–67, 71, 150 Kemble, Fanny 10 Massachusetts Historical Society 212 Kennedy, J.
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