1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782765203321

Autore

Balaam Peter <1963-, >

Titolo

Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature / / by Peter Balaam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-135-88433-1

1-281-97755-1

9786611977559

0-203-50400-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

810.9/353

810.9003

810.9353

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Grief in literature

Bereavement in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Misery's Mathematics"; 1 "The Laws of Our Learning": Emerson's Grief and the Geological Principles of Loss; 2 Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide World; 3 Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville's Piazza Tales; Afterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature whose 'originality' stemmed from its capacity to mourn the loss of a common culture and, through such mourning, to assent to new social and cultural realities. Balaam locates



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004127580403321

Autore

Villon, François <1431-1463>

Titolo

Le lais Villon et les poèmes variés / édité par Jean Rychneret Albert Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genève, : Droz, 1977

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 18 cm

Collana

Textes littéraires français ; 239 ; 240

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

840.8 TLF(239)

840.8 TLF(240)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689690703321

Titolo

NCRR reporter / / National Center for Research Resources

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethesda, MD, : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health

ISSN

1554-9879

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

619

Soggetti

Medicine - Research - United States

Medicine - Research grants - United States

Federal aid to medical research - United States

Research

Research Support as Topic

Federal aid to medical research

Medicine - Research

Medicine - Research grants

Research grants

Periodical

Computer network resources.

Periodicals.

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico