Reconsidering Longfellow (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Arbour, Robert; Irmscher, Christoph

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow's work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Separate contributions discuss Longfellow's financial dealings, his preoccupation with his children, and his interest in the visual arts, as well as the tremendous role his poetry did and will once again play in American literature classrooms in the U.S. All essays were written specifically for the volume. Many of them rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683939382
• Artikelnr.: 74830807

Autorenporträt

Christoph Irmscher is provost professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. Robert Arbouris a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Quotations
Introduction
Christoph Irmscher
1. Longfellow's Conversations: Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early
Poetry
Andrew C. Higgins
2. Feeling, Controlling, and Transcending: The Negotiation of Sentiment
in Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman
Lloyd Willis
3. "A Love of Heaven and Virtue": Why Longfellow Sentimentalizes Death
Monica Pelaez
4. The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American Literature
James McDougall
5. The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow's Evangeline
Lauren Simek
6. Westwärts! Westwärts!
Christoph Irmscher
7. The Cultural Career of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"
Matthew Gartner
8. Figures Other Than Figures of Speech:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Pursuit of Financial Success
Rob Velella
9. "Not from the Grand Old Masters":
The Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow
Robert Arbour
10. Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature
Curriculum
Lauren Gatti
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index