Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow's work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Many of the essays rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at the Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.…mehr
Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow's work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Many of the essays rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at the Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christoph Irmscher is provost professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. Robert Arbour is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington.
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Contents Acknowledgments Note on Quotations Introduction Christoph Irmscher 1. Longfellow's Conversations: Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early Poetry Andrew C. Higgins 2. Feeling, Controlling, and Transcending: The Negotiation of Sentiment in Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman Lloyd Willis 3. "A Love of Heaven and Virtue": Why Longfellow Sentimentalizes Death Monica Pelaez 4. The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American Literature James McDougall 5. The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow's Evangeline Lauren Simek 6. Westwärts! Westwärts! Christoph Irmscher 7. The Cultural Career of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" Matthew Gartner 8. Figures Other Than Figures of Speech: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Pursuit of Financial Success Rob Velella 9. "Not from the Grand Old Masters": The Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Arbour 10. Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature Curriculum Lauren Gatti Select Bibliography Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments Note on Quotations Introduction Christoph Irmscher 1. Longfellow's Conversations: Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early Poetry Andrew C. Higgins 2. Feeling, Controlling, and Transcending: The Negotiation of Sentiment in Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman Lloyd Willis 3. "A Love of Heaven and Virtue": Why Longfellow Sentimentalizes Death Monica Pelaez 4. The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American Literature James McDougall 5. The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow's Evangeline Lauren Simek 6. Westwärts! Westwärts! Christoph Irmscher 7. The Cultural Career of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" Matthew Gartner 8. Figures Other Than Figures of Speech: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Pursuit of Financial Success Rob Velella 9. "Not from the Grand Old Masters": The Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Arbour 10. Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature Curriculum Lauren Gatti Select Bibliography Contributors Index
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