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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cavitch, Max
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Elegiac poetry, American.
Death in literature.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Mort dans la litterature.
Chagrin dans la litterature.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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