Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855-1901 (Interventions in Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture)

Bonifacio, Ayendy

Edinburgh University Press（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399523509

Full Description

Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between January 1855 and October 1901, Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855 1901 argues that nineteenth-century newspaper poems are inherently paratextual. The paratextual situation of many newspaper poems (their links to surrounding textual items and discourses), their editorialisation through circulation (the way poems were altered from newspaper to newspaper) and their association and disassociation with certain celebrity bylines, editors and newspaper titles enabled contemporaneous poetic value and taste that, in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, were not only sentimental, Romantic and/or genteel. In addition to these important categories for determining a good and bad poem, poetic taste and value were determined, Bonifacio argues, via arbitrary consequences of circulation, paratextualisation, typesetter error and editorial convenience.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Poetics of Paratextuality

1. Poetess as Paratext: Lydia H. Sigourney and Alice Cary in the New York Ledger

2. Reprint Poems in Francisco P. Ramírez's El Clamor Público

3. The Reprint Lives of "Panic Poetry"

4. The Epitextual Sites of Cholera Poems

5. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in Puerto Rico's Partisan Press

Coda: "In Defense of Newspaper Poets"

BibliographyIndex