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  1. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Author: Sachs, Aaron
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... more

     

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691236940
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    Subjects: HISTORY / United States / General
    Other subjects: A. Mitchell Palmer; Abolitionism; Adam Hochschild; Ahab; Ambiguity; Americans; At the Core; Awareness; Barbarian; Billy Budd; Biography; Captain Ahab; Career; City Of; Clarel; Commodity; Consciousness; Continuance; Countermovement; Cultural evolution; Deep history; Determination; Disenchantment; Dynasty; E. M. Forster; Emblem; Environmentalism; Escapism; Essay; Ethos; Exploration; Frigate; George Perkins Marsh; Gilded Age; Grief; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; His Family; Human Desire; Imperialism; Impressment; In This World; In the Life; John Claggart; Joseph Conrad; Kitimat; Langston Hughes; Lewis Mumford; Lifeway; Malcolm Cowley; Manifest destiny; Mechanization; Memoir; Michael Shelden; Moby-Dick; Modernity; Monomania; Mr; Narrative; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Near East; Oahu; Omoo; Optimism; Organism; Poetry; Prometheus; Puritans; Queequeg; Redburn; Reign; Remarkable; Requirement; Role; Romanticism; Scientism; Scurvy; Slang; Slavery; Suffering; Technology; The Conduct of Life; The Encantadas; The Golden Day; The Other Hand; The Philosopher; The Rest of the Story; The Spirit of the Age; Tropic of Capricorn; Typee; Uncertainty; Utopia; V; W. Somerset Maugham; Warfare; White-Jacket; William Roscoe; Woolf; Works and Days; Writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (472 Seiten), 18 b/w illus
  2. Before Modernism
    inventing American lyric
    Author: Jackson, Virginia Walker
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for... more

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    How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Through inspired readings of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley Peters, George Moses Horton, Ann Plato, James Monroe Whitfield, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—as well as the poetry of neglected but once popular White poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Virginia Jackson demonstrates how Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries. As an idea of poetry based on genres of poems such as ballads, elegies, odes, hymns, drinking songs, and epistles gave way to an idea of poetry based on genres of people—Black, White, male, female, Indigenous—almost all poetry became lyric poetry. Jackson traces the twisted paths leading to our current understanding of lyric, along the way presenting not only a new history but a new theory of American poetry.A major reassessment of the origins and development of American poetics, Before Modernism argues against a literary critical narrative that links American modernism directly to British or European Romanticism, emphasizing instead the many ways in which early Black poets intervened by inventing what Wheatley called “the deep design” of American lyric

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691233116
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    RVK Categories: HR 1769
    Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; American poetry; Lyric poetry; Poetics; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American
    Other subjects: Heptameter; High culture; Historicism; History; Holism; I Wish (manhwa); Idealization; Ideology; Imagination; Immanuel Kant; Impasse; Indigenous peoples of the Americas; Intentionality; International community; Irrigation management; Jericho Brown; John Ashbery; Justin Kaplan; Kantianism; Locus Solus; Lyric poetry; Manthia Diawara; Mass migration; Medievalism; Meditations; Memorization; Mind control; Mneme; Modernism; Monetary policy; Moral imperative; Negative capability; On the Eve; Open Secrets; Pamphlet; Pedant; Personhood; Philosophy; Poet; Poetry; Pooling (resource management); Prehistory; Proclamation; Pun; Punishment; Rainer Maria Rilke; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Republicanism; Responsiveness; Samuel Beckett; Society; Spanish Americans; Speech; Sphere of influence; State of affairs (sociology); Subject (philosophy); Subjectivity; Sustainable development; T. S. Eliot; Textuality; The Possibilities (Preacher); Thomas Hobbes; Trimeter; Uncertainty; Virgil; W. E. B. Du Bois; Washington Irving; World literature; WorldCat; Writing; Adage; Adult; All things; Analogy; Archive; Biography; Black people; Book History (journal); C. L. R. James; Clotel; Colony; Columbia University Press; Complexion; Coviello; Critical race theory; Desertification; Dramatic monologue; Edgar Allan Poe; English poetry; Evocation; First appearance; Frigate; Fugitive slave laws; Genre; Geoffrey Hartman; Georgics; Great books; Harlem Renaissance; Henry Kissinger; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (303 Seiten), Illustrationen