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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... social and psychological shifts. From the Puritans to Whitman, they span the rise of capitalism in Protestant North America and its transformation into the consumer society of the late-nineteenth- century United States. They trace the ...
... social and psychological shifts. From the Puritans to Whitman, they span the rise of capitalism in Protestant North America and its transformation into the consumer society of the late-nineteenth- century United States. They trace the ...
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... to explore how expressivity in contexts of loss helps constitute social as well as individual experiences of memory and anticipation, to evaluate elegiac responses to a specific ethical task—one that prizes resistance INTRODUCTION.
... to explore how expressivity in contexts of loss helps constitute social as well as individual experiences of memory and anticipation, to evaluate elegiac responses to a specific ethical task—one that prizes resistance INTRODUCTION.
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... social imaginaries we construct and to how we inhabit them. Social imaginaries, to modify the abstraction developed by Charles Taylor, are those ways in which psychic life crosses externalized will in intersubjective experience ...
... social imaginaries we construct and to how we inhabit them. Social imaginaries, to modify the abstraction developed by Charles Taylor, are those ways in which psychic life crosses externalized will in intersubjective experience ...
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... social structures in which genre transmits normative values (such as belief in an afterlife, or speaking well of the dead, or promoting the continuity of patriarchal authority) and individuated efforts to imbue poems and persons with ...
... social structures in which genre transmits normative values (such as belief in an afterlife, or speaking well of the dead, or promoting the continuity of patriarchal authority) and individuated efforts to imbue poems and persons with ...
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... social and cultural change, during which many Americans underwent crises of identity and faith and, with ex- traordinary frequency, shaped their anxieties in the figure of the lost child. I begin with child elegies by Lydia Sigourney ...
... social and cultural change, during which many Americans underwent crises of identity and faith and, with ex- traordinary frequency, shaped their anxieties in the figure of the lost child. I begin with child elegies by Lydia Sigourney ...
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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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