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UNINA9910782765203321 |
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Balaam Peter <1963-, > |
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Titolo |
Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature / / by Peter Balaam |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-88433-1 |
1-281-97755-1 |
9786611977559 |
0-203-50400-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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810.9/353 |
810.9003 |
810.9353 |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Grief in literature |
Bereavement 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. [173]-180) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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