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Summary:

"When critics of poet Phyillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon of works that are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. Ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of visual art, reveals a particularly interesting form of copying where the artwork in question becomes a kind of mediated space between author and reader. This practice, then, becomes the emblematic form of literature as collective production. Original Copy frames ekphrasis and other forms of literary and visual copy-work as key practices for understanding the discussions of nationalism, originality, and gender that dominated US literary circles during the first half of the nineteenth century. Christa Holm Vogelius focuses on four major writers of the period-Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Fuller, Sophia Hawthorne, and Henry Longfellow-to offer a narrative of a self-consciously feminine antebellum literary culture that was equally invested in literary nationality and convention. Bridging studies of literary nationalism and transnationalism, scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century literary culture, and aesthetic and media theory, this book argues the significance of both imitation and intimate author-reader relations to the development of an American literature"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Vogelius, Christa Holm, 1981- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Original copy: ekphrasis, gender, and the national imagination in nineteenth-century American literature [by Vogelius, C.H.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Original copy [by Vogelius, C.H.] (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2025 — ISBN 9781625348449; LCCN 2024036125)

Related Series:

Becoming modern (University of Massachusetts Press)

Subjects:

American literature — 19th century — History and criticism

Ekphrasis

Originality in literature

Feminist theory

Nationalism and literature — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PS217.E45 V64 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781685751166 (electronic book)
1685751164 (electronic book)
9781685751159 (electronic book)
1685751156 (electronic book)
9781625348456 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781625348449 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024036126

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31347179 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp308555311