Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning /

Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / Adam C. Bradford ; jacket design, Jennifer Cropp.

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"To twenty-first century readers, nineteenth-century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin -- the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memoriali...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bradford, Adam C. (Author)
Other Authors: Cropp, Jennifer (Designer)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
Death in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
American poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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