Original Copy - Vogelius, Christa Holm
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"When critics of poet Phyillis 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 of works that are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. Ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of visual art, reveals a particularly interesting form of copying where 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. Original Copy frames ekphrasis and…mehr

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"When critics of poet Phyillis 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 of works that are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. Ekphrasis, the literary description of a work of visual art, reveals a particularly interesting form of copying where 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. Original Copy frames ekphrasis and other forms of literary and visual copy-work as key practices 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. Bridging studies of literary nationalism and transnationalism, scholarship on gender in nineteenth-century literary culture, and aesthetic and media theory, this book argues the significance of both imitation and intimate author-reader relations to the development of an American literature"--
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Autorenporträt
Christa Holm Vogelius is New Carlsberg Fellow in Art Research at the Jacob A. Riis Museum and Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her scholarship has appeared in Poe Studies, Legacy, ESQ , Common-Place, American Periodicals, and The Emily Dickinson Journal.