National melancholy
Subtitle: mourning and opportunity in classic American literature
By: Mitchell Breitwieser.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780804755818
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Melancholy in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the time of the double not; title: Early American Antigone : Anne Bradstreet; title: Thomas Jefferson's prospect; title: Who speaks (and who writes) in Walt Whitman's poems?; title: Henry David Thoreau and the wrecks on Cape Cod; title: Losing Deephaven : Sarah Orne Jewett, regionalism, and the art of loss; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the puzzle of inherited mourning; title: Jazz fractures : F. Scott Fitzgerald and epochal representation.