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.
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.
Peter Balaam teaches English and American Studies at Carleton College.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: "Misery's Mathematics" Chapter One: "The Laws of our Learning": Emerson's Grief and the Geological Principles of Loss Chapter Two: Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide World Chapter Three: Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville's Piazza Tales Afterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation Notes Works Cited Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: "Misery's Mathematics" Chapter One: "The Laws of our Learning": Emerson's Grief and the Geological Principles of Loss Chapter Two: Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide World Chapter Three: Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville's Piazza Tales Afterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation Notes Works Cited Index
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