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Communities of Death : Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826273161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communities of DeathDDC classification:
  • 818.309
LOC classification:
  • PS217
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Ascendant Harmonies: Whitman's "Art Singing and Heart Singing" in Poe's Broadway Journal of 1845 -- Chapter 1. Inspiring Death: Poe's Poetic Aesthetics and the "Communities" of Mourning -- Chapter 2. Horrifying (Re)Inscriptions: Poe's Transcendent Gothic and the 'Effects' of Reading -- Chapter 3. The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass -- Chapter 4. Embodying the Book: Mourning for the Masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps -- Chapter 5. Aggregating Americans: The Political Immortality of Walt Whitman's Two Rivulets -- Afterword(s): Curious Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Ascendant Harmonies: Whitman's "Art Singing and Heart Singing" in Poe's Broadway Journal of 1845 -- Chapter 1. Inspiring Death: Poe's Poetic Aesthetics and the "Communities" of Mourning -- Chapter 2. Horrifying (Re)Inscriptions: Poe's Transcendent Gothic and the 'Effects' of Reading -- Chapter 3. The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass -- Chapter 4. Embodying the Book: Mourning for the Masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps -- Chapter 5. Aggregating Americans: The Political Immortality of Walt Whitman's Two Rivulets -- Afterword(s): Curious Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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