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245 10 a| Communities of death :b| Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning /c| Adam C. Bradford.;

246 30 a| Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning;

264 1 a| Columbia, Missouri :b| University of Missouri Press,c| [2014];

300 a| xii, 248 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.;

505 0 a| Ascendant harmonies : Whitman's "Art singing and heart singing" in Poe's Broadway journal of 1845 -- Inspiring death : Poe's poetic aesthetics and the "communities" of mourning -- Horrifying (re)inscriptions : Poe's transcendent Gothic and the 'effects' of reading -- The collaborative construction of a death-defying cryptext : Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Embodying the book : mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-taps -- Aggregating Americans : the political immortality of Walt Whitman's Two rivulets -- Afterword(s) : curious conclusions.;

520 a| "To twenty-first century readers, nineteenth-century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin -- the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memorializing provided opportunities to the bereaved to assert deeply held beliefs, forge social connections, and advocate for social and political change. This culture also permeated the literature of the day, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. In Communities of Death, Adam C. Bradford explores the ways in which the ideas, rituals, and practices of mourning were central to the work of both authors. While both Poe and Whitman were heavily influenced by the mourning culture of their time, their use of it differed. Poe focused on the tendency of mourners to cling to anything that could remind them of their lost loved ones; Whitman focused not on the mourner but on the soul's immortality, positing an inevitable reunion. Yet Whitman repeatedly testified that Poe's Gothic and macabre literature played a central role in spurring him to produce the transcendent Leaves of Grass. By unveiling a heretofore marginalized literary relationship between Poe and Whitman, Bradford rewrites our understanding of these authors and suggests a more intimate relationship among sentimentalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism than has previously been recognized. Bradford's insights into the culture and lives of Poe and Whitman will change readers' understanding of both literary icons."-- Publisher description.;

600 10 a| Whitman, Walt,d| 1819-1892x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A17982;

600 10 a| Poe, Edgar Allan,d| 1809-1849x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A23060;

650 0 a| Death in literature.=| ^A58525;

650 0 a| Mourning customs in literature.=| ^A221043;

650 0 a| American literaturey| 19th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A17640;

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Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / Adam C. Bradford.

Author/creator	Bradford, Adam C. author.
Format	Book
Publication	Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2014]
Copyright Date	©2014
Description	xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation. Death in literature. Death--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century. Mourning customs in literature. American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.

Portion of title	Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning
Contents	Ascendant harmonies : Whitman's "Art singing and heart singing" in Poe's Broadway journal of 1845 -- Inspiring death : Poe's poetic aesthetics and the "communities" of mourning -- Horrifying (re)inscriptions : Poe's transcendent Gothic and the 'effects' of reading -- The collaborative construction of a death-defying cryptext : Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Embodying the book : mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-taps -- Aggregating Americans : the political immortality of Walt Whitman's Two rivulets -- Afterword(s) : curious conclusions.
Abstract	"To twenty-first century readers, nineteenth-century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin -- the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memorializing provided opportunities to the bereaved to assert deeply held beliefs, forge social connections, and advocate for social and political change. This culture also permeated the literature of the day, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. In Communities of Death, Adam C. Bradford explores the ways in which the ideas, rituals, and practices of mourning were central to the work of both authors. While both Poe and Whitman were heavily influenced by the mourning culture of their time, their use of it differed. Poe focused on the tendency of mourners to cling to anything that could remind them of their lost loved ones; Whitman focused not on the mourner but on the soul's immortality, positing an inevitable reunion. Yet Whitman repeatedly testified that Poe's Gothic and macabre literature played a central role in spurring him to produce the transcendent Leaves of Grass. By unveiling a heretofore marginalized literary relationship between Poe and Whitman, Bradford rewrites our understanding of these authors and suggests a more intimate relationship among sentimentalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism than has previously been recognized. Bradford's insights into the culture and lives of Poe and Whitman will change readers' understanding of both literary icons."-- Publisher description.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
ISBN	9780826220196
ISBN	0826220193

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