Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Michael C. Cohen teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Michael C. Cohen teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America illuminates the connections between poems and critical ideas about poetic genres! and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poems and poets in American culture by examining how people encountered and made sense of poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem Chapter 1. Balladmongering and Social Life Chapter 2. The Poetics of Reform Chapter 3. Contraband Songs Chapter 4. Old Ballads and New Histories Chapter 5. The Reconstruction of American Poetry Chapter 6. The Minstrels' Trail Notes Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Michael C Cohen, Michael C. Cohen
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2015
• EAN: 9780812247084
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4708-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Material Texts; Material Texts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies