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Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature / / Peter Balaam



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Autore: Balaam Peter <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature / / Peter Balaam Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/353
810.9003
810.9353
Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Grief in literature
Bereavement in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Misery's mathematics  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-135-88433-1
1-281-97755-1
9786611977559
0-203-50400-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823971103321
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Serie: Literary criticism and cultural theory.