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...

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Published in:	Early American Literature Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 363 - 395
Main Author:	Putzi, Jennifer
Format:	Article
Published:	University of North Carolina Press 2023
Subjects:	Acrostics (Literary form) Bryant, Charity Same-sex relationships Richards, Lydia Manuscripts Print culture
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost