"This Mighty Convulsion" : Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War /

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This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hoffman, Tyler (Editor ), Sten, Christopher, 1944- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Iowa Whitman series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Civil war in literature.
Historical poetry, American.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > In literature.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry.
Electronic books.
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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