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National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature

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National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature - Breitwieser, Mitchell
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Breitwieser's close readings reveal that the thwarting of mourning, partly linked to nationalist feeling, was a central issue for many American authors, but that those who successfully reclaimed mourning came to strange and fresh understandings of the actual world.

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National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature 2007, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804755818

Hardcover