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Communities of Death: Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning de Adam C. Bradford

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

Autor Adam C. Bradford
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 dec 2014 – vârsta ani
To 21st century readers, 19th 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 memorializing provided opportunities to the bereaved to assert deeply held beliefs, forge social connections, and advocate for social and political change. This culture also permeated the literature of the day, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. In Communities of Death, Adam C. Bradford explores the ways in which the ideas, rituals, and practices of mourning were central to the work of both authors.
 
While both Poe and Whitman were heavily influenced by the mourning culture of their time, their use of it differed. Poe focused on the tendency of mourners to cling to anything that could remind them of their lost loved ones; Whitman focused not on the mourner but on the soul’s immortality, positing an inevitable reunion. Yet Whitman repeatedly testified that Poe’s Gothic and macabre literature played a central role in spurring him to produce the transcendent Leaves of Grass.
 
By unveiling a heretofore marginalized literary relationship between Poe and Whitman, Bradford rewrites our understanding of these authors and suggests a more intimate relationship among sentimentalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism than has previously been recognized. Bradford’s insights into the culture and lives of Poe and Whitman will change readers’ understanding of both literary icons.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826220196
ISBN-10: 0826220193
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 16 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Missouri Press
Colecția University of Missouri

Recenzii

“There is much that is fresh and valuable in Adam Bradford’s book….Bradford’s observations on mourning are especially important for Civil War studies in general, and for reading Civil War literature with an added perspective on a subject which in the end is all perspective and only perspective-death.”—Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

“This study critiques the critical tendency to marginalize Edgar Allan Poe’s relation to Walt Whitman.”—American Literature

“Challenges the generally held perception that Poe either stood apart from or was openly hostile toward the sentimental tradition of mourning, and instead makes the case that he was deeply engaged with the aesthetics, rituals, objects, and affective states that define this tradition. Bradford’s reconsideration of Poe within the context of mourning culture sheds new light on the author’s aesthetic philosophies and on his reception by readers, including one of his most famous readers: Walt Whitman.”—Poe Studies

Notă biografică

Adam C. Bradford is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Chair of the English Department at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He teaches Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture and is especially interested in the material and print culture of the period. His articles have been published in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Edgar Allan Poe Review, and Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices. He lives in Plantation, Florida.

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To 21st century readers, 19th 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 memorializing provided opportunities to the bereaved to assert deeply held beliefs, forge social connections, and advocate for social and political change. This culture also permeated the literature of the day, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. In Communities of Death, Adam C. Bradford explores the ways in which the ideas, rituals, and practices of mourning were central to the work of both authors.