How Long to Read Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

How Long Does it Take to Read Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now by Brian Yothers

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Description

This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today. Yothers examines antislavery poetry in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.

How long is Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now?

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now by Brian Yothers is 309 pages long, and a total of 80,031 words.

This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now aloud.

What Reading Level is Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now?

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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