American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to WhitmanU of Minnesota Press - 352 من الصفحات The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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... Century Anglo - American Elegy 33 2. Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning 3. Taking Care of the Dead : Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy 108 4. Elegy's Child : Waldo Emerson 80 and the Price of Generation 143 5 ...
... Century Anglo - American Elegy 33 2. Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning 3. Taking Care of the Dead : Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy 108 4. Elegy's Child : Waldo Emerson 80 and the Price of Generation 143 5 ...
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... century , elegies continued to number among the most abundant contributions to the pages of colonial newspapers . In 1790 , Philip Freneau remarked that “ No species of poetry is more frequently attempted . ” 2 And in 1866 , Lydia ...
... century , elegies continued to number among the most abundant contributions to the pages of colonial newspapers . In 1790 , Philip Freneau remarked that “ No species of poetry is more frequently attempted . ” 2 And in 1866 , Lydia ...
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... century American elegies makes the genre difficult to historicize . Yet the fact that such a history has been un- attempted by literary scholars is surprising when one considers the significance of elegy in Western literary history ...
... century American elegies makes the genre difficult to historicize . Yet the fact that such a history has been un- attempted by literary scholars is surprising when one considers the significance of elegy in Western literary history ...
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... century , as the subject of reason operating in the sphere of morality , and by the late nineteenth century , as the emancipatory project of personal autonomy . During this period , American elegy bids its long farewell to the soul and ...
... century , as the subject of reason operating in the sphere of morality , and by the late nineteenth century , as the emancipatory project of personal autonomy . During this period , American elegy bids its long farewell to the soul and ...
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... century New England memorial culture . First , immoderate mourn- ing was on the rise , manifesting itself not only in elegiac appeals to emotionalism but also in more and more elaborate and expensive fu- nerals . Second , the ...
... century New England memorial culture . First , immoderate mourn- ing was on the rise , manifesting itself not only in elegiac appeals to emotionalism but also in more and more elaborate and expensive fu- nerals . Second , the ...
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1 Legacy and Revision in EighteenthCentury AngloAmerican Elegy | 33 |
2 Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning | 80 |
Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy | 108 |
Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation | 143 |
African Americans and Elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln | 180 |
Whitman and the Future of Elegy | 233 |
Objects | 286 |
Notes | 295 |
Index | 335 |
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