National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature

National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature
ISBN-10
0804755817
ISBN-13
9780804755818
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
Mitchell Robert Breitwieser

Description

Breitwieser's close readings reveal that the thwarting of mourning, partly linked to nationalist feeling, was a central issue for many American authors, but that those who successfully reclaimed mourning came to strange and fresh understandings of the actual world.

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