Misery's Mathematics

Misery's Mathematics
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781135884321
ISBN-13 : 1135884323
Rating : 4/5 (323 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Misery's Mathematics by : Peter Balaam

Download or read book Misery's Mathematics written by Peter Balaam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Related Books

Misery's Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Peter Balaam
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-19 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to rende
Misery's Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Peter Balaam
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-19 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render loss in
Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: John Wrighton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-25 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the Objectivists to e-poetry, this thoughtful and innovative book explores the dynamic relationship between the ethical imperative and poetic practice, rev
The Piazza Tales
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1948 - Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

‘The Piazza Tales’ is a collection of short stories by Herman Melville. The volume contains the following stories: The Piazza Bartleby Benito Cereno The Lig
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
Language: en
Pages: 486
Authors: Robert S. Levine
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the