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UNINA9910460026303321 |
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Bradford Adam C. |
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Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / / Adam C. Bradford ; jacket design, Jennifer Cropp |
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Columbia, Missouri : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2014 |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Death in literature |
Mourning customs in literature |
American poetry - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction. Ascendant harmonies : Whitman's "Art singing and heart singing" in Poe's Broadway journal of 1845 -- Inspiring death : Poe's poetic aesthetics and the "communities" of mourning -- Horrifying (re)inscriptions : Poe's transcendent Gothic and the 'effects' of reading -- The collaborative construction of a death-defying cryptext : Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Embodying the book : mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-taps -- Aggregating Americans : the political immortality of Walt Whitman's Two rivulets -- Afterword(s) : curious conclusions. |
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To 21st century readers, 19th century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin--the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memorializing provided opportunities to the bereaved to assert deeply held beliefs, forge social connections, and advocate for social and political change. This culture also permeated the literature of the day, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. In Communities of Death, Adam C. Bradford explores the ways in which the ideas, rituals, and practices of mourning were central to the work of |
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both authors. While both Poe and Whitman were heavily influenced by the mourning culture of their time, their use of it differed. Poe focused on the tendency of mourners to cling to anything that could remind them of their lost loved ones; Whitman focused not on the mourner but on the soul's immortality, positing an inevitable reunion. Yet Whitman repeatedly testified that Poe's Gothic and macabre literature played a central role in spurring him to produce the transcendent Leaves of Grass. By unveiling a heretofore marginalized literary relationship between Poe and Whitman, Bradford rewrites our understanding of these authors and suggests a more intimate relationship among sentimentalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism than has previously been recognized. Bradford's insights into the culture and lives of Poe and Whitman will change readers' understanding of both literary icons. |
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UNINA9910478874503321 |
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Lesbian and gay psychology [[electronic resource] ] : theory, research, and clinical applications / / editors, Beverly Greene, Gregory M. Herek |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1994 |
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1-4833-2675-6 |
1-4522-5463-X |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Psychological perspectives on lesbian and gay issues ; ; 1 |
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GreeneBeverly |
HerekGregory M |
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Lesbians - Psychology |
Gay men - Psychology |
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"Sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues, Division 44 of the American Psychological Association." |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 - Lesbian and Gay Sexual Orientations: Implications for Clinical Training, Practice, and Research; Chapter 2 - When Perceptions Meet Reality: Individual |
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Differences in Reactions to Lesbians and Gay Men; Chapter 3 - Our Politics and Choices: The Feminist Movement and Sexual Orientation; Chapter 4 - Sexual Pride and Shame in Lesbians; Chapter 5 - Lesbians and Physical Appearance: Which Model Applies?; Chapter 6 - Boundaries in Lesbian Therapist-Client Relationships |
Chapter 7 - Lesbian and Gay Male Development: Steps Toward an Analysis of Lesbians' and Gay Men's LivesChapter 8 - The Nature and Correlates of Relationship Quality in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Cohabiting Couples: A Test of the Individual Difference, Interdependence, and Discrepancy Models; Chapter 9 - Children of the Lesbian Baby Boom: Behavioral Adjustment, Self-Concepts, and Sex Role Identity; Chapter 10 - Internalized Homophobia: Conceptual and Empirical Issues in Measurement |
Chapter 11 - Assessing Heterosexuals' Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men: A Review of Empirical Research With the ATLG ScaleAuthor Index; Subject Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
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In this first volume of the Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues series, innovative empirical studies provide insight into the complexities and subtleties of the lesbian and gay community. Oustanding contributors explore issues relating to: the children of lesbians; internalized homophobia; lesbian and gay development; relationship quality of cohabiting couples; sexual pride and shame in lesbians; physical appearance; the impact of the feminist political movement; heterosexual attitudes; and boundaries in lesbian therapist//client relationships. |
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