Antebellum American Women’s Poetry

Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre-Civil War American discourse. Wendy Dasler Johnson considers the logos, ethos, and pathos of poems by Frances Watkins Harper, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Julia Ward Howe.