Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. A Note on Names xiii
5. Preface: Mnemosyne 1
6. 1 What History Does to Us 13
7. 2 Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism: Pierpont, Douglass, Whitfield—and Horton 64
8. 3 Personification: On Phillis Wheatley’s Memory 102
9. 4 Prosody: William Cullen Bryant and the White Romantic Lyric 139
10. 5 The Poetess: Frances Ellen Watkins, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 190
11. Coda: The Prophecy 232
12. Acknowledgments 243
13. Notes 247
14. Selected Bibliography 275
15. Index 291