National Melancholy
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-5581-8 (ISBN)
In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack Kerouac) who were struggling to understand mourning, both in their own experience and in the abstract. He draws attention to their inquiries into the way mourning gets blocked or diverted, especially into external social interferences with mourning designed to transform mournful emotions into feelings of solidarity with national causes, and into the depression that follows from such false mourning. Emphasizing their struggle to repossess mourning, he argues that for several of them reclaimed mourning opened a door onto a strange and fresh understanding of experience.
Mitchell Breitwieser is Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley. He is is the author of Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality and of American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative. His current project is tentatively titled The Life and Times of Harry Lime: Personal and Historical Disappointment in Graham Greene's The Third Man.
Contents Prefacex 1. Introduction: The Time of the Double Not000 2. Early American Antigone: Anne Bradstreet000 3. Thomas Jefferson's Prospect000 4. Who Speaks (and Who Writes) in Walt Whitman's Poems?000 5. Henry David Thoreau and the Wrecks on Cape Cod000 6. Losing Deephaven: Sarah Orne Jewett, Regionalism, and the Art of Loss000 7. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the Puzzle of Inherited Mourning000 8. Jazz Fractures: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Epochal Representation000 Notes000 Works Cited000 Index000
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 644 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8047-5581-7 / 0804755817 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-5581-8 / 9780804755818 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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