02897nam 2200649 a 450 991082469250332120230721025729.00-8166-9885-6(CKB)1000000000346649(EBL)310766(OCoLC)476096189(SSID)ssj0000102041(PQKBManifestationID)11137797(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102041(PQKBWorkID)10042883(PQKB)11298112(MiAaPQ)EBC310766(OCoLC)172371207(MdBmJHUP)muse38752(Au-PeEL)EBL310766(CaPaEBR)ebr10180205(CaONFJC)MIL523026(EXLCZ)99100000000034664920060808d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican elegy[electronic resource] the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman /Max CavitchMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (362 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4893-X 0-8166-4892-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index.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.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.Elegiac poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican poetryHistory and criticismMourning customs in literatureGrief in literatureDeath in literatureElegiac poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.Mourning customs in literature.Grief in literature.Death in literature.811.009/3548Cavitch Max1702332MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824692503321American elegy4086783UNINA