The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910

ISBN-13: 9780521301084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 368 str.

Sacvan Bercovitch; Sacvan Bercovitch

Opis

The contributors to this volume discuss the extraordinary literary achievement of nineteenth century American poetry in its social and cultural contexts. Key contributions explore the early Federalist poets; the achievements of Longfellow and Whittier; and the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Another chapter provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, including emerging African-American poets, as well as the major canonical figures.

Recenzje

'… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …'. Use of English

Spis treści

Introduction Sacvan Bercovitch and Neal Dolan; Part I. American Verse Traditions, 1800–1855 Barbara Packer: 1. Neoclassicism: comic and satiric verse; 2. Early narrative and lyric; 3. Transcendentalism; Part II. Poetry and Public Discourse, 1820–1910 Shira Wolosky: Preface: The claims of rhetoric; 1. Modest claims; 2. Claiming the Bible; 3. Poetic language; 4. Plural identities; 5. Walt Whitman: the office of the poet; 6. Emily Dickinson: the violence of the imagination; Chronology Neal Dolan.