LEADER 03120oam 2200697I 450 001 9910823971103321 005 20240405105447.0 010 $a1-135-88433-1 010 $a1-281-97755-1 010 $a9786611977559 010 $a0-203-50400-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203504000 035 $a(CKB)1000000000702303 035 $a(EBL)182962 035 $a(OCoLC)475897931 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000203486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11171107 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10258140 035 $a(PQKB)11362177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182962 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182962 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10277435 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL197755 035 $a(OCoLC)893193930 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000702303 100 $a20130331d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMisery's mathematics $emourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature /$fby Peter Balaam 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-98124-9 311 $a0-415-96807-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index. 327 $aBook 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 330 $aThis book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature whose 'originality' stemmed from its capacity to mourn the loss of a common culture and, through such mourning, to assent to new social and cultural realities. Balaam locates 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGrief in literature 606 $aBereavement in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGrief in literature. 615 0$aBereavement in literature. 676 $a810.9/353 676 $a810.9003 676 $a810.9353 700 $aBalaam$b Peter$f1963-,$01706357 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823971103321 996 $aMisery's mathematics$94093715 997 $aUNINA