American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to WhitmanU of Minnesota Press - 352 頁 The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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... England Puritans , the consolidating force of elegiac tradition became increasingly attenuated under countervailing pressures of migration and encounter , pluralization and secularization , war and independence . Yet Americans did not ...
... England Puritans , the consolidating force of elegiac tradition became increasingly attenuated under countervailing pressures of migration and encounter , pluralization and secularization , war and independence . Yet Americans did not ...
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... England . Absent a belief in purgatory or in any possibility of effi- cacious intervention on behalf of the dead , rites were kept simple , even austere . Until midcentury , graves were often left unmarked . The simple obsequies were ...
... England . Absent a belief in purgatory or in any possibility of effi- cacious intervention on behalf of the dead , rites were kept simple , even austere . Until midcentury , graves were often left unmarked . The simple obsequies were ...
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... England memorial culture . First , immoderate mourn- ing was on the rise , manifesting itself not only in elegiac appeals to emotionalism but also in more and more elaborate and expensive fu- nerals . Second , the increasingly rich ...
... England memorial culture . First , immoderate mourn- ing was on the rise , manifesting itself not only in elegiac appeals to emotionalism but also in more and more elaborate and expensive fu- nerals . Second , the increasingly rich ...
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... England , and let Boston know , How much they do to CHRIST for Willard owe : Chrift's Precious Blued produc'd this CopiousGood , ( In all Its worth ) not fully understood . Harvard ! I'le call thy Head ( for tis no Treason ) Maßer of ...
... England , and let Boston know , How much they do to CHRIST for Willard owe : Chrift's Precious Blued produc'd this CopiousGood , ( In all Its worth ) not fully understood . Harvard ! I'le call thy Head ( for tis no Treason ) Maßer of ...
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... England Courant , “ seldom produces any other sort of Poetry , ” and , to make matters worse , most of the elegies are " wretchedly Dull and Ridiculous " ( 21 ) . She is therefore eager to alert her readers to what is ostensibly an ...
... England Courant , “ seldom produces any other sort of Poetry , ” and , to make matters worse , most of the elegies are " wretchedly Dull and Ridiculous " ( 21 ) . She is therefore eager to alert her readers to what is ostensibly an ...
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1 Legacy and Revision in EighteenthCentury AngloAmerican Elegy | 33 |
2 Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning | 80 |
Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy | 108 |
Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation | 143 |
African Americans and Elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln | 180 |
Whitman and the Future of Elegy | 233 |
Objects | 286 |
Notes | 295 |
Index | 335 |
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