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- Title
Edmund Clarence Stedman's Black Atlantic.
- Authors
Loeffelholz, Mary
- Abstract
Explores how the transatlantic poetic field that Edmund Clarence Stedman dubbed "Victorian" in his critical work and helped bring into being with his anthologies informs his sequence on the Caribbean, published as the U.S. was on the verge of the intervention in Cuba and the Philippines that would soon become known popularly as the Spanish-American War and as the opening of "the American Century". Stedman's lyric sequence on the Caribbean; Stedman's lyric sequence and its representation of the Caribbean as ripe for the modernizing U.S. turn-of-the-century imperialism; Stedman's crossing of Homeric with nineteenth-century American cultural references.
- Subjects
CUBA; PHILIPPINES; STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908; AMERICAN poetry; AMERICAN poets; POETRY (Literary form); FOREIGN relations of the United States; IMPERIALISM; LITERARY style; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0025