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American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman
- Title
- American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max Cavitch.
- Author
- Cavitch, Max.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 07-3810 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- viii, 352 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-3810
- ISBN
- 0816648921 (alk. paper)
- 9780816648924 (alk. paper)
- 081664893X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780816648931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006026217
- OCLC
- 70883192
- Author
- Cavitch, Max.
- Title
- American elegy : the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / Max Cavitch.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-333) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-3810