Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature
This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render loss in innovative ways. These three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
186 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780415968072, 9780203504000, 0415968070, 0203504003
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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Misery’s Mathematics"Chapter One: "The Laws of our Learning": Emerson’s Grief and the GeologicalPrinciples of LossChapter Two: Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide WorldChapter Three: Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville’s Piazza TalesAfterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of CompensationNotesWorks CitedIndex