Communities of death
Bradford, Adam C.,
Communities of death Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / [electronic resource] : Adam C. Bradford. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 248 pages)) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
Introduction. Ascendant harmonies : Whitman's "Art singing and heart singing" in Poe's Broadway journal of 1845 -- Inspiring death : Poe's poetic aesthetics and the "communities" of mourning -- Horrifying (re)inscriptions : Poe's transcendent Gothic and the 'effects' of reading -- The collaborative construction of a death-defying cryptext : Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Embodying the book : mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-taps -- Aggregating Americans : the political immortality of Walt Whitman's Two rivulets -- Afterword(s) : curious conclusions.
9780826273161 0826273165
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Themes, motives.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Themes, motives.
American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Memorialization--In literature.
Death in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.D4 / B733 2014
809/.03
Communities of death Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / [electronic resource] : Adam C. Bradford. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 248 pages)) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
Introduction. Ascendant harmonies : Whitman's "Art singing and heart singing" in Poe's Broadway journal of 1845 -- Inspiring death : Poe's poetic aesthetics and the "communities" of mourning -- Horrifying (re)inscriptions : Poe's transcendent Gothic and the 'effects' of reading -- The collaborative construction of a death-defying cryptext : Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Embodying the book : mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-taps -- Aggregating Americans : the political immortality of Walt Whitman's Two rivulets -- Afterword(s) : curious conclusions.
9780826273161 0826273165
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Themes, motives.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Themes, motives.
American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Memorialization--In literature.
Death in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.D4 / B733 2014
809/.03