The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jul 17, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780812247084
Description: Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family memories as well as local and national affiliations. Poetry was not only read but memorized and quoted, rewritten and parodied, collected, anthologized, edited, and exchanged.
Notes: Source title: The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America (Material Texts)