American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to WhitmanU of Minnesota Press - 352 páginas The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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... United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 121110090807 10987654321 orphan's loss ofher parents, Portland, . Silk, chenille, pencil, paint,
... United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 121110090807 10987654321 orphan's loss ofher parents, Portland, . Silk, chenille, pencil, paint,
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... loss, they measure out the distance between emotion and convention, between local disruptions of bereavement and long traditions of resignation. In their figures of death, elegies seek to apprehend the ultimate, most unknowable ...
... loss, they measure out the distance between emotion and convention, between local disruptions of bereavement and long traditions of resignation. In their figures of death, elegies seek to apprehend the ultimate, most unknowable ...
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... loss of susceptibility to self-narration in the American context. For the heightened self-reflexiveness of elegiac convention—the tendency, for example, to figure acts of mourning in terms of poetic competition, to discover solace in ...
... loss of susceptibility to self-narration in the American context. For the heightened self-reflexiveness of elegiac convention—the tendency, for example, to figure acts of mourning in terms of poetic competition, to discover solace in ...
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... losses contrasts sharply with the prolific work of local elegists, of which she takes notice in her self-appointed role as civic conscience. “Our soil,” she writes in the seventh of her fourteen letters on civic virtue to The New ...
... losses contrasts sharply with the prolific work of local elegists, of which she takes notice in her self-appointed role as civic conscience. “Our soil,” she writes in the seventh of her fourteen letters on civic virtue to The New ...
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... Figure . Title page of Sallie A. Brock's The Southern. orphan's loss ofher parents, Portland, . Silk, chenille, pencil, paint, and ink on silk. Courtesy ofthe Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, Massachusetts. INTRODUCTION.
... Figure . Title page of Sallie A. Brock's The Southern. orphan's loss ofher parents, Portland, . Silk, chenille, pencil, paint, and ink on silk. Courtesy ofthe Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, Massachusetts. INTRODUCTION.
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1 Legacy and Revision in EighteenthCentury AngloAmerican Elegy | 33 |
2 Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning | 80 |
Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy | 108 |
Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation | 143 |
African Americans and Elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln | 180 |
Whitman and the Future of Elegy | 233 |
Objects | 286 |
Notes | 295 |
Index | 335 |
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American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Max Cavitch Prévia não disponível - 2007 |
American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Max Cavitch Prévia não disponível - 2007 |
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Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum ... Peter Balaam Prévia não disponível - 2009 |