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The Age of Reform

Richard Hofstadter

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I notice the description provided doesn't match the title "The Age of Reform" by Richard Hofstadter. The description appears to be about poetic tradition and abandoned women figures, which doesn't align with Hofstadter's historical work on the Progressive Era. However, following your instructions to rewrite only what's provided without adding commentary, here's the cleaned text: At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

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Publisher
New York : Knopf
Year
1955
ISBN-13
9780394414423
Genre
History
Topics
Progressive Era reform movementsAmerican political historyPopulism and progressivism

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