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Autore |
Cavitch Max |
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Titolo |
American elegy [[electronic resource] ] : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / / Max Cavitch |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Elegiac poetry, American - History and criticism |
American poetry - History and criticism |
Mourning customs in literature |
Grief in literature |
Death in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: leaving poetry behind -- Legacy and revision in eighteenth-century Anglo-American elegy -- Elegy and the subject of national mourning -- Taking care of the dead: custodianship and opposition in antebellum elegy -- Elegy's child: Waldo Emerson and the price of generation -- Mourning of the disprized: African Americans and elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln -- Retrievements out of the night: Whitman and the future of elegy. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch sees in the poems the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. |
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