Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609384032 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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E. That story, however, is only half true. Jacksonian America, by contrast, was ideologically committed to the popular—although what and who counted as such was up for serious debate. The nineteenth century was, we have been told, the “century of the poisoner,” when Britain and the United States trembled under an onslaught of unruly women who poisoned husbands with gleeful abandon. They produced and devoured reams of ephemeral newsprint, cheap trial transcripts, and sensational “true” pamphlets, as well as novels, plays, and poems. The reason for this poison predilection lies in the political logic of metaphor. The literary gadfly John Neal called on his fellow Jacksonian writers to defy British critical standards, saying, “Let us have poison.” Poisonous Muse investigates how they answered, how they deployed the figure of the female poisoner to theorize popular authorship, to validate or undermine it, and to fight over its limits, particularly i
We never feel as though we are being lectured to, even as the author displays enviable erudition and the lasting value of deep work in the archive—from ephemeral newspapers and pamphlets to now-canonical literature.”—Philip F. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . “Crosby’s work is an adventurous, sophisticated exploration in nineteenth-century American print culture of a little-remarked but widely utilized trope, women’s involvement in notorious poisonings. Gura, William S. Her pr
Earl said Poisoning women as populist metaphor. In The Poisonous Muse Sara L. Crosby makes a strong case for the use of the poisoning female as both a negative and a positive metaphor with the positive use being uniquely American during the Jacksonian period.Crosby lays out her argument nicely at the beginning stating that while Britain used the hysteria surrounding real and fictional poisoning wo. Kristine Fisher said and just plain ol' not knowing any better. Crafty and masterful. Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America by Sara L. Crosby is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late March. Torn between the sheer amount of Borgia fiction and non-fiction books that are available these days, I decided to pick this up and learn about the topic, conceptually.Crosby deftly draw