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
Main Author: Cavitch, Max
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch sees in the poems the development of an African-American genealogical imagination.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816698851

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