The Cambridge History of American Literature - 4: Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth - Century Poetry 1800191

Informationen zum Autor Sacvan Bercovitch is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This first complete history of nineteenth-century American poetry covers the span of the century! providing a new perspective on the achievements of female poets of the period! of African-American poets! as well as the major canonical figures! and paying full attention to the social and cultural contexts of the poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Sacvan Bercovitch, Sacvan (Harvard University Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell
• Assisted by: Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor), Sacvan (Harvard University Bercovitch (Editor), Bercovitch Sacvan (Editor), Cyrus R. K. Patell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521301084
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30108-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Sets: The Cambridge History of American Literature; The Cambridge History of American Literature
• Series: Cambridge History of American; The Cambridge History of American Literature; Cambridge History of American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general