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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... people in eighteenth- and nineteenth - century America — the self - consciously literary and the barely literate , the devout and the worldly , the politi- cally powerful and the socially dead — left behind thousands 2 INTRODUCTION.
... people in eighteenth- and nineteenth - century America — the self - consciously literary and the barely literate , the devout and the worldly , the politi- cally powerful and the socially dead — left behind thousands 2 INTRODUCTION.
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... dead — left behind thousands of elegies in broadsides and the penny press , books , magazines , and diaries , and in the records of coteries and public performances . This body of work has been difficult to recognize as such , not ...
... dead — left behind thousands of elegies in broadsides and the penny press , books , magazines , and diaries , and in the records of coteries and public performances . This body of work has been difficult to recognize as such , not ...
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... dead person's name , which was Whistler . She warn't ever the same , after that ; she never complained , but she kind of pined away and did not live long ? These satires are so familiar , and in some ways so akin to one another , that ...
... dead person's name , which was Whistler . She warn't ever the same , after that ; she never complained , but she kind of pined away and did not live long ? These satires are so familiar , and in some ways so akin to one another , that ...
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... dead , rites were kept simple , even austere . Until midcentury , graves were often left unmarked . The simple obsequies were much more about those who remained alive — about the opportunity to the living such occasions provided for ...
... dead , rites were kept simple , even austere . Until midcentury , graves were often left unmarked . The simple obsequies were much more about those who remained alive — about the opportunity to the living such occasions provided for ...
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... dead remained a common part of domestic life , especially for women , before the rise of the mortuary industry in the latter part of the nineteenth century . A real - life Widow Dogood would have laid out her husband's corpse . But a ...
... dead remained a common part of domestic life , especially for women , before the rise of the mortuary industry in the latter part of the nineteenth century . A real - life Widow Dogood would have laid out her husband's corpse . But a ...
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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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