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Poems in the U.S. Popular Press, 1855-1866

Bonifacio Peralta, Ayendy José
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1328-7085
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155533852650219

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
Drawing examples from over 100 English- and Spanish-language popular dailies and weeklies between January 1855 and December 1866, my dissertation, “Poems in the U.S. Popular Press, 1855-1866,” argues that mid-nineteenth-century newspaper poems constitute a vital but still understudied form of public discourse. I define public discourse as political conversations, debates, and representations for reasoning that take place in the public sphere. I make this case in archival detail in four chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on celebrity poets as part of the media culture created by editor Robert Bonner in his blockbuster story paper the New York Ledger. Chapter 2 shifts from the East to the West coast, recovering the hemispheric Spanish-language poems in the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the Mexican-American War, El Clamor Publico (the Public Outcry). Chapters 3 and 4 excavate the robust but largely unknown archives of newspaper poems circulating across the U.S. concerning the Panic of 1857 and the New York City cholera epidemic of 1866. This project is significant to the field of U.S. literary history, including the growing scholarship on the Latinx nineteenth century, for two primary reasons. First, the archive of periodical poems has not been completely recovered, categorized, or situated with respect to the larger currents of nineteenth-century public and print cultures. Second, scholars of the Latinx nineteenth century, including Rodrigo Lazo, Jesse Aleman, and Kirsten Silva Gruesz, have begun piecing together histories of the cultural productions of Latinx people using valuable but still incomplete archives. My dissertation contributes to the necessary work of reading Spanish- and English-language newspaper poems as related acts of public discourse reflecting a diverse U.S. media culture.
Elizabeth Renker (Advisor)
Elizabeth Hewitt (Committee Member)
Jared Gardner (Committee Member)
203 p.
American Literature; American Studies; Hispanic American Studies; Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies; Literature
Nineteenth Century; Poetry and Poetics; Periodical Studies; Journalism; Print Culture; Newspapers; Spanish Language; Celebrity Poets; Latinx Studies; Transamerican Studies; Hemispheric Studies; Finance; Epidemiology

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  • Bonifacio Peralta, A. J. (2019). Poems in the U.S. Popular Press, 1855-1866 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155533852650219

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bonifacio Peralta, Ayendy. Poems in the U.S. Popular Press, 1855-1866. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155533852650219.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bonifacio Peralta, Ayendy. "Poems in the U.S. Popular Press, 1855-1866." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155533852650219

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