"This mighty convulsion" : Whitman and Melville write the Civil War /

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"While several essays treating the Civil War poetry of Whitman and Melville together have appeared in scholarly journals over the past few decades, "This Mighty Convulsion" is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of these two poets, arguably the most important...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sten, Christopher, 1944- (Editor ), Hoffman, Tyler (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
Colección:Iowa Whitman series.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
1861-1865
Historical poetry, American.
Civil war in literature.
Guerre civile dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > In literature.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Poésie.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Dans la littérature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Poetry.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. "This mighty convulsion": Whitman and Melville write the Civil War / Christopher Sten and Tyler Hoffman
  • The interplay of drum-taps and battle-pieces. "The foulest crime": Whitman, Melville, and the cultural life of a phrase / Ed Folsom
  • Materiality in the Civil War poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman / Vanessa Steinroetter
  • Battle-pieces, drum-taps, and the aesthetic of aftermath in Civil War photography / Sarah L. Thwaites
  • Reconciliation as sequel and supplement: drum-taps and battle-pieces / Peter J. Bellis
  • Re-imagining drum taps. Whitman's disarming poetics: recuperating the language of the body in drum-taps / Kyle Barton
  • Embodying the book: mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's drum-taps / Adam Bradford
  • Drum-taps and the chaos of war / Cody Marrs
  • Re-imagining battle-pieces. Melville and the lord of hosts: holy war and divine warrior rhetoric in battle-pieces / Jonathan A. Cook
  • "Nearer to us in nature": the US South and Herman Melville's literary lost cause / Timothy Marr
  • Melville's historical imagination in "the house-top" / Christopher Ohge
  • Melville's reconstructions: the "moorish maid" in "Lee in the Capitol" / Brian Yothers
  • Drum-taps and battle-pieces brought together / Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and the American Civil War poetry anthology / Ian Faith
  • List of American Civil War poetry anthologies.

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