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Reconsidering Longfellow /

Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow's work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The So...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Note on Quotations; Introduction; Chapter One: Longfellow's Conversations: Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early Poetry; Chapter Two: Feeling, Controlling, and Transcending: The Negotiation of Sentiment in Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman; Chapter Three: "A Love of Heaven and Virtue": Why Longfellow Sentimentalizes Death; Chapter Four: The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American Literature; Chapter Five: The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow's Evangeline; Chapter Six: Westwärts! Westwärts!; Chapter Seven: The Cultural Career of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."
  • Chapter Eight: Figures Other Than Figures of Speech: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Pursuit of Financial SuccessChapter Nine: "Not from the Grand Old Masters": The Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow; Chapter Ten: Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature Curriculum; Selected Bibliography; Index; Note on Contributors.