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Reconsidering Longfellow
ISBN-13:
9781611476743
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
226
Autor:
Christoph Irmscher
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 Many of the essays rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at the Houghton Library in Cambridge,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.
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 Many of them rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at Houghton Library in Cambridge,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.
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 Pelaez4. The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American LiteratureJames McDougall
5. The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow’s Evangeline
Lauren Simek
6. Westwärts! Westwärts!
Christoph Irmscher7. 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 Velella9. “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 GattiSelect BibliographyContributors Index
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 Pelaez4. The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American LiteratureJames McDougall
5. The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow’s Evangeline
Lauren Simek
6. Westwärts! Westwärts!
Christoph Irmscher7. 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 Velella9. “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 GattiSelect BibliographyContributors Index