{"product_id":"original-copy-ekphrasis-gender-and-the-national-imagination-in-nineteenth-century-american-literature-9781625348449","title":"Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e When critics of poet Phillis 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, sitting alongside other works that, like the popular copybooks in antebellum America, are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. Different kinds of copying in this period were distinctly feminized practices, such as artistic copying, pedagogical recitation, and literary imitation. Ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of visual art, reveals a particularly interesting form of copying, as 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOriginal Copy\u003c\/i\u003e frames ekphrasis and other forms of literary and visual copy-work as key concepts 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. The explicitly feminized forms of the copy between and within media, she argues, became a productive means by which writers across a variety of genres interrogated the ill-defined but ubiquitous idea of an \"original\" American literature. \u003ci\u003eOriginal Copy\u003c\/i\u003e bridges three bodies of scholarship that have remained largely distinct--studies of literary nationalism and transnationalism, scholarship on gender in nineteenth century literary culture, and aesthetic and media theory--to argue for the significance of both imitation and intimate author-reader relations to the development of an American literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christa Holm Vogelius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Becoming Modern: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625348449","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43398041141385,"sku":"9781625348449","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b0f68490-224b-4eeb-b8d6-e8a685cb12da.jpg?v=1740474004","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/original-copy-ekphrasis-gender-and-the-national-imagination-in-nineteenth-century-american-literature-9781625348449","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}