Reconsidering Longfellow (eBook)

Christoph Irmscher, Robert Arbour (Herausgeber)

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2014
226 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-674-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. 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. Many of the essays rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at the Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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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 Many of them rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at Houghton Library in Cambridge,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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early PoetryMonica Pelaez4. The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American LiteratureEvangelineWestwärts! Westwärts!Christoph Irmscher7. The Cultural Career of Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”Rob VelellaThe Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Arbour10. Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature CurriculumLauren GattiSelect BibliographyContributors Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2014
• Co-Autor: Matthew Gartner, Lauren Gatti, Andrew C. Higgins, James I. McDougall, Monica Pelaez, Lauren Simek, Rob Velella, Lloyd Willis
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Literature • Literary Studies • Poetry • Seventeenth-Century American Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-674-7 / 1611476747
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-674-3 / 9781611476743