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The Cambridge History of American Literature

Volume 4. Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800–1910

Part of The Cambridge History of American Literature

Editor: Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Sacvan Bercovitch, Neal Dolan, Barbara Packer, Shira Wolosky

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Date Published: December 2004
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521301084

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The contributors to this volume discuss the extraordinary literary achievement of nineteenth century American poetry in its social and cultural contexts. Key contributions explore the early Federalist poets; the achievements of Longfellow and Whittier; and the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Another chapter provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, including emerging African-American poets, as well as the major canonical figures.
- The most complete narrative history to date of nineteenth-century American poetry
- The only full analysis of American poetry between 1790 and 1855
- An invaluable work for students and scholars of American literature
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"...The fulsome attention to women writers especially makes this volume a corrective to other publications. Highly recommended." CHOICE May 2005
"This informative volume an be read as an expression of the ongoing debates about cultural patterns and aesthetic values in American literature." -- American Reference Books Annual
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521301084
- length: 368 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 163 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.97kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Sacvan Bercovitch and Neal Dolan
Part I. American Verse Traditions, 1800–1855 Barbara Packer:
1. Neoclassicism: comic and satiric verse
2. Early narrative and lyric
3. Transcendentalism
Part II. Poetry and Public Discourse, 1820–1910 Shira Wolosky: Preface: The claims of rhetoric
1. Modest claims
2. Claiming the Bible
3. Poetic language
4. Plural identities
5. Walt Whitman: the office of the poet
6. Emily Dickinson: the violence of the imagination
Chronology Neal Dolan.
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Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Sacvan Bercovitch is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.
Contributors
Sacvan Bercovitch, Neal Dolan, Barbara Packer, Shira Wolosky