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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... later Ages : Mafter of Tongues ; Master of Policy's So much Admir'd ; And in Theology's Doctrines & Truths , which moft Myfterious Are , His Learned Mind might fafely take the Chair . He Liv'd and Wrought in the Oraculous Flame , ' Till ...
... later Ages : Mafter of Tongues ; Master of Policy's So much Admir'd ; And in Theology's Doctrines & Truths , which moft Myfterious Are , His Learned Mind might fafely take the Chair . He Liv'd and Wrought in the Oraculous Flame , ' Till ...
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... other in the name of a forgotten grievance , Huck cannot seem to " make it go " when he later tries to describe the experience and mourn his friends : I ain't agoing to tell all that happened it would IO INTRODUCTION.
... other in the name of a forgotten grievance , Huck cannot seem to " make it go " when he later tries to describe the experience and mourn his friends : I ain't agoing to tell all that happened it would IO INTRODUCTION.
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... and symbolic loss in Huckleberry Finn - the book is a monument to unaccomplished mourning to recognize in Twain's satire his own lament for the loss . of an expressive resource . That he later rediscovered this 12 INTRODUCTION.
... and symbolic loss in Huckleberry Finn - the book is a monument to unaccomplished mourning to recognize in Twain's satire his own lament for the loss . of an expressive resource . That he later rediscovered this 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... later rediscovered this resource is not the worst reason to consider more carefully its long and dynamic his- tory in American literature . A further reason to be surprised that this has not already been done is the great size and ...
... later rediscovered this resource is not the worst reason to consider more carefully its long and dynamic his- tory in American literature . A further reason to be surprised that this has not already been done is the great size and ...
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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 |
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