TY - BOOK AU - Bradford,Adam C. ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Communities of death: Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning SN - 9780826273161 AV - PN56.D4 B733 2014 U1 - 809/.03 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - Poe, Edgar Allan, KW - American poetry KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Memorialization KW - In literature KW - Death in literature KW - Mourning customs in literature KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826273161/ ER -