03133oam 2200697I 450 991045464550332120200520144314.01-135-88433-11-281-97755-197866119775590-203-50400-310.4324/9780203504000 (CKB)1000000000702303(EBL)182962(OCoLC)475897931(SSID)ssj0000203486(PQKBManifestationID)11171107(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203486(PQKBWorkID)10258140(PQKB)11362177(MiAaPQ)EBC182962(Au-PeEL)EBL182962(CaPaEBR)ebr10277435(CaONFJC)MIL197755(OCoLC)893193930(EXLCZ)99100000000070230320130331d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMisery's mathematics mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature /by Peter BalaamNew York :Routledge,2009.1 online resource (201 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-98124-9 0-415-96807-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.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; IndexThis 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 Literary criticism and cultural theory.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismGrief in literatureBereavement in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Grief in literature.Bereavement in literature.810.9/353810.9003810.9353Balaam Peter1963-,852598MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454645503321Misery's mathematics1903814UNINA