TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradford,Adam C.
TI  - Communities of Death: Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning
SN  - 9780826273161
AV  - PS217 
U1  - 818.309 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Whitman, Walt,-1819-1892
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Mourning customs in literature
KW  - American poetry-19th century-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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