Overtones of opera in American literature from Whitman to Wharton
By: Carmen Trammell Skaggs.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780807134917
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Opera in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Embodying poetic transcendence: Whitman and opera; title: Divided attention: the opera house in Poe and Alcott; title: An awakening of the artist: opera in Chopin and Cather; title: A standard of taste and form: opera in the cosmopolitan world of James and Wharton.