Teaching nineteenth-century American poetry / Teaching 19th-century American poetry edited by Paula Bernat Bennett, Karen L. Kilcup, and Philipp Schweighauser. - New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2007. - ix, 402 pages ; 23 cm. - Modern Language Association of America options for teaching ; 20 . - Options for teaching ; 20. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-392) and index.

Rethinking nineteenth-century American poetry / Teaching various kinds of poems -- Oktahutchee's song : reflections on teaching nineteenth-century American Indian poetry / Teaching the sorrow songs / "Wild nights"? : approaches to teaching nineteenth-century erotic poetry / Mill girls and minstrels : working-class poetry in the nineteenth century / Reenacting American Civil War poetry / "I looked again and saw" : teaching postbellum realist poetry / Teaching the schoolroom poets / Paula Bernat Bennett Karen L. Kilcup -- Betty Booth Donohue -- Barbara McCaskill -- Karen L. Kilcup -- Paula Bernat Bennett -- Tyler Hoffman -- Elizabeth Renker -- Angela Sorby. and pt. 1. Teaching poets in context -- Teaching Lydia Sigourney / glorious secrets of sad love" : the development of Margaret Fuller's poetry / Teaching African American poetry of the Reconstruction era : Frances E.W. Harper's "Moses : a story of the Nile" / Emma Lazarus and Jewish poetry / Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Toolbox" : the value of satiric poetry and social reform / Paul Laurence Dunbar and postbellum African American poetry / Stephen Crane : American poetry at a crossroads / Paul Lauter -- Jeffrey Steele -- Frances Smith Foster Valerie L. Ruffin -- Gregory Eiselein -- Alfred Bendixen -- Nassim W. Balestrini -- Judith P. Saunders. pt. 2. "The and Strategies for teaching -- Poe, women poets, and print circulation / Poetry and the American Renaissance : another reconsideration / "Told in story or sung in rhyme" : narrative pairings in prose and verse / Discordant American vistas : teaching nineteenth-century paintings and poetry / Understanding sentimentalism / Sex, drugs, and mingling spirits : teaching nineteenth-century women poets / Teaching nineteenth-century American poetry in the community college / Coda : In newspapers, over radio waves, on envelopes : nineteenth-century poetic discourse in the early twentieth century / Eliza Richards -- Katherine Rodier -- Jane Donahue Eberwein -- Elizabeth Petrino -- Elizabeth Savage -- Cheryl Lawson Walker -- Gregory Byrd Nan Morelli-White -- Edward Brunner. pt. 3. and Resources -- Resources for the study of nineteenth-century American poetry : a selective guide / Editions -- Anthologies -- Reference guides -- Biographies -- Critical debates -- General studies -- Single-author studies -- Other poetries -- Web resources -- Notes on contributors -- Works cited and recommended -- Index. Philipp Schweighauser -- pt. 4.

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