The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America / / Michael C. Cohen.
Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of po...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 23 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem
- Chapter 1. Balladmongering and Social Life
- Chapter 2. Th e Poetics of Reform
- Chapter 3. Contraband Songs
- Chapter 4. Old Ballads and New Histories
- Chapter 5. The Reconstruction of American Poetry
- Chapter 6. The Minstrels’ Trail
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments