American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /

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American Elegy reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Max Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin and Bradstreet. He then turns to elegy's adaptations during the Jacksonian age. Devoting unpre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cavitch, Max
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism.
American poetry > History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.
Poésie américaine > Histoire et critique.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la littérature.
Chagrin dans la littérature.
Mort dans la littérature.
Poésie élégiaque américaine > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
American poetry
Death in literature
Elegiac poetry, American
Grief in literature
Mourning customs in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: leaving poetry behind
  • Legacy and revision in eighteenth-century Anglo-American elegy
  • Elegy and the subject of national mourning
  • Taking care of the dead: custodianship and opposition in antebellum elegy
  • Elegy's child: Waldo Emerson and the price of generation
  • Mourning of the disprized: African Americans and elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln
  • Retrievements out of the night: Whitman and the future of elegy.

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