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National Melancholy : Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature /
In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack Kerouac) who were struggling to understand mourning, both in their own experience and in the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The Time of the Double Not
- 2. Early American Antigone: Anne Bradstreet
- 3. Thomas Jefferson's Prospect
- 4. Who Speaks (and Who Writes) in Walt Whitman's Poems?
- 5. Henry David Thoreau and the Wrecks on Cape Cod
- 6. Losing Deephaven: Sarah Orne Jewett, Regionalism, and the Art of Loss
- 7. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the Puzzle of Inherited Mourning
- 8. Jazz Fractures: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Epochal Representation
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index