The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
by
Kathrynn Seidler Engberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women...