American elegy [[electronic resource] ] : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / / Max Cavitch

• Autore: Cavitch Max
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.009/3548
• Soggetto topico: Elegiac poetry, American - History and criticism; American poetry - History and criticism; Mourning customs in literature; Grief in literature; Death in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: American elegy
• ISBN: 0-8166-9885-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451775903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II