Examines the works of a diverse range of realist poets to redefine the significance of poetry to the genre of realism during the postbellum period in American l

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Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was rea

Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between January 1855 and October 1901, Paratextuality

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality. Later critical accounts held that American literature