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Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning /
"To twenty-first century readers, nineteenth-century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin -- the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memoriali...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, Missouri :
University of Missouri Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ascendant harmonies : Whitman's "Art singing and heart singing" in Poe's Broadway journal of 1845
- Inspiring death : Poe's poetic aesthetics and the "communities" of mourning
- Horrifying (re)inscriptions : Poe's transcendent Gothic and the 'effects' of reading
- The collaborative construction of a death-defying cryptext : Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass
- Embodying the book : mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-taps
- Aggregating Americans : the political immortality of Walt Whitman's Two rivulets
- Afterword(s) : curious conclusions.