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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... become , in Loraux's words , “ a threat to be contained , but also one to be fanta- sized about . ” 13 Franklin's satire demonstrates this . His female persona Aug 16031 ) 1.00 = 25⋅octri b Figure 1. Two 6 INTRODUCTION.
... become , in Loraux's words , “ a threat to be contained , but also one to be fanta- sized about . ” 13 Franklin's satire demonstrates this . His female persona Aug 16031 ) 1.00 = 25⋅octri b Figure 1. Two 6 INTRODUCTION.
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... becoming norma- tive values , and some of whose perceptions of value were changing the ways in which different kinds of lives were mourned and , indeed , whether certain lives would be mourned at all . Elegy is central to the emergence ...
... becoming norma- tive values , and some of whose perceptions of value were changing the ways in which different kinds of lives were mourned and , indeed , whether certain lives would be mourned at all . Elegy is central to the emergence ...
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... become the most abjected form of elegy on the contemporary critical scene : the much- mocked , tepidly celebrated child elegies that overwhelmed the genre's popular development in the antebellum period . I have chosen to focus chiefly ...
... become the most abjected form of elegy on the contemporary critical scene : the much- mocked , tepidly celebrated child elegies that overwhelmed the genre's popular development in the antebellum period . I have chosen to focus chiefly ...
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... become attached to — how we develop bonds and rela- tionships with particulars . What makes grief agonizing is precisely that when someone or something particular has been lost , it cannot recur . Thus in the concept of substitution ...
... become attached to — how we develop bonds and rela- tionships with particulars . What makes grief agonizing is precisely that when someone or something particular has been lost , it cannot recur . Thus in the concept of substitution ...
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... becoming a largely accusatory enterprise against the past , a game of seek and condemn , as if literature were merely a repository for evidence of the faults and crimes of earlier generations . This often has the unintended and ...
... becoming a largely accusatory enterprise against the past , a game of seek and condemn , as if literature were merely a repository for evidence of the faults and crimes of earlier generations . This often has the unintended and ...
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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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