Communities of death [electronic resource] : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / Adam C. Bradford.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 2015); Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 248 pages))ISBN:- 9780826273161
- 0826273165
- 809/.03 23
- PN56.D4 B733 2014
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.
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