Communities of Death : Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning /

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To 21st century readers, 19th 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 memorializing provided opportun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bradford, Adam C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Themes, motives.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Themes, motives.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Memorialization > In literature.
Death in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. 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.

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