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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... Less directly, such acts provoked (even as they sought to retrench) extraordinary imaginings as well. Excessive mourning had become, in Loraux's words, “a threat to be contained, but also one to be fantasized about.” Franklin's ...
... Less directly, such acts provoked (even as they sought to retrench) extraordinary imaginings as well. Excessive mourning had become, in Loraux's words, “a threat to be contained, but also one to be fantasized about.” Franklin's ...
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... less amenable to contemporary critical transformations—by virtue ofits formal coherence. To dwell on the relative formal coherence of “Lilacs” does to some extent risk minimizing Whitman's strangeness as a poet and as a dispersive ...
... less amenable to contemporary critical transformations—by virtue ofits formal coherence. To dwell on the relative formal coherence of “Lilacs” does to some extent risk minimizing Whitman's strangeness as a poet and as a dispersive ...
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... Less well remarked is Whitman's location of lyrical subjectivity in the figure of the elegist : the " lone singer , wonderful , causing tears . " 27 In " Lilacs " especially , the historical tension between “ communal rhetorical ...
... Less well remarked is Whitman's location of lyrical subjectivity in the figure of the elegist : the " lone singer , wonderful , causing tears . " 27 In " Lilacs " especially , the historical tension between “ communal rhetorical ...
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... less obviously, it is part of our particular obligation to learn to mourn, as Butler puts it, “in global dimensions.” This obligation has a very long history. Consequently, this book holds at bay the instability of a series of ...
... less obviously, it is part of our particular obligation to learn to mourn, as Butler puts it, “in global dimensions.” This obligation has a very long history. Consequently, this book holds at bay the instability of a series of ...
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... less persuasive tack . For behind his assertions of distinctiveness ( " these poems do differ from their English counterparts " ) lie presumptions of a “ compulsion toward originality and privacy ” and a “ more nakedly expressive style ...
... less persuasive tack . For behind his assertions of distinctiveness ( " these poems do differ from their English counterparts " ) lie presumptions of a “ compulsion toward originality and privacy ” and a “ more nakedly expressive style ...
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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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