National melancholy : mourning and opportunity in classic American literature / Mitchell Breitwieser.

Author/creator Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionix, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Introduction : the time of the double not -- Early American Antigone : Anne Bradstreet -- Thomas Jefferson's prospect -- Who speaks (and who writes) in Walt Whitman's poems? -- Henry David Thoreau and the wrecks on Cape Cod -- Losing Deephaven : Sarah Orne Jewett, regionalism, and the art of loss -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the puzzle of inherited mourning -- Jazz fractures : F. Scott Fitzgerald and epochal representation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-316) and index.
LCCN 2007019470
ISBN9780804755818 (alk. paper)
ISBN0804755817 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS 169.N35 B74 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold