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“Some Queer Freak of Taste”: Gender, Authorship, and the “Rock Me to Sleep” Controversy

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Jennifer Putzi
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901436
Published: 01 December 2012
... that they had authored the lyric; the most committed imposter was Alexander McWhorter Ball, a New Jersey legislator whose wealthy and powerful friends mounted a national campaign to prove his authorship. The poem’s actual author, Elizabeth Akers Allen, found herself in danger of losing her reputation...
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The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

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Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616247
Published: 01 September 2020
... Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville) and other poets well known in their day but largely forgotten since, including Henry Howard Brownell, Elizabeth Akers Allen, Frances Harper, George Henry Boker, and Amanda Jones. (Harper has entered the canon, of course, but not as a Civil War poet...
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American Literature Index to Volume 84 (March 2012–December 2012)

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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2082227
Published: 01 December 2012
... Akers. “‘Some Queer Freak of Taste’: Gender, Authorship and the ‘Rock Me to Sleep’ Controversy,” by Jennifer Putzi, 769–95. Apess, William. “Shadows of Mashantucket: William Apess and the Repre- sentation of Pequot Place,” by Mark Rifkin, 691–714. Authorship. “‘Some Queer Freak of Taste...
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