Charity Bryant and the Queer Affordances of the Early American Acrostic.
This article investigates early American women's acrostic poetry, especially as it was written and exchanged in same-sex friendships and romantic relationships. It begins with a discussion of male poets' deployment of the print acrostic in the service of courtship, considering how such poems expose...
| Publicado en: | Early American Literature Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 363 - 395 |
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University of North Carolina Press
2023
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