American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to WhitmanU of Minnesota Press - Всего страниц: 352 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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... American Elegy 33 . Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning 80 . Taking Care of the Dead: Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy I08 . Elegy's Child: Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation 143 . Mourning of the Disprized ...
... American Elegy 33 . Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning 80 . Taking Care of the Dead: Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy I08 . Elegy's Child: Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation 143 . Mourning of the Disprized ...
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... America from the earliest years of British settlement. Yet beyond its Puritan phase it has received no comprehensive ... American context. For the heightened self-reflexiveness of elegiac convention—the tendency, for example, to figure ...
... America from the earliest years of British settlement. Yet beyond its Puritan phase it has received no comprehensive ... American context. For the heightened self-reflexiveness of elegiac convention—the tendency, for example, to figure ...
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... American elegy is difficult to trace because it is itself part of the story of Americans' periodic frustrations with both the op- pressiveness and the inefficiency of routes and mechanisms of transmission. From Creole resistance to ...
... American elegy is difficult to trace because it is itself part of the story of Americans' periodic frustrations with both the op- pressiveness and the inefficiency of routes and mechanisms of transmission. From Creole resistance to ...
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... America and its transformation into the consumer society of the late-nineteenth- century United States. They trace the ... American elegy bids its long farewell to the soul and steps up its hailing of the unconscious. Far from being an ...
... America and its transformation into the consumer society of the late-nineteenth- century United States. They trace the ... American elegy bids its long farewell to the soul and steps up its hailing of the unconscious. Far from being an ...
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... America by repeatedly electing to remain aloof from traditional family groups. The singular exception is his sojourn with the Grangerfords, into whose home and daily routine Huck slips without any apparent reluctance, despite his ...
... America by repeatedly electing to remain aloof from traditional family groups. The singular exception is his sojourn with the Grangerfords, into whose home and daily routine Huck slips without any apparent reluctance, despite his ...
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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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