This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature whose 'originality' stemmed from its capacity to mourn the loss of a common culture and, through such mourning, to assent to new social and cultural realities. Balaam locates this appeal to 'reality' in the analogies antebellum writers drew between their experience of bereavement, and the experiences of uncertainty and disillusionment, that followed the revolutions in science, the winding down of creedal systems and the economic instability typifying the pre-Civil War era.
| ISBN: | 9781138981249 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 2016 |
| Author: | Peter Balaam |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 186 pages |
| Series: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 History |
This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature whose 'originality' stemmed from its capacity to mourn the loss of a common culture and, through such mourning, to assent to new social and cultural realities. Balaam locates this appeal to 'reality' in the analogies antebellum writers drew between their experience of bereavement, and the experiences of uncertainty and disillusionment, that followed the revolutions in science, the winding down of creedal systems and the economic instability typifying the pre-Civil War era.
Misery's Mathematics features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, History
Misery's Mathematics is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Misery's Mathematics was written by Peter Balaam and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Misery's Mathematics has 186 pages
Yes it is part of Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series
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