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The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover)
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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 poems to spread
scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting
personal and family memories as well as local and national
affiliations. Poetry was not only read but memorized and quoted,
rewritten and parodied, collected, anthologized, edited, and
exchanged. Michael C. Cohen here explores the multiplicity of
imaginative relationships forged between poems and those who made
use of them from the post-Revolutionary era to the turn of the
twentieth century. Organized along a careful genealogy of ballads
in the Atlantic world, The Social Lives of Poems in
Nineteenth-Century America demonstrates how the circulation of
texts in songs, broadsides, letters, and newsprint as well as in
books, anthologies, and critical essays enabled poetry to perform
its many different tasks. Considering the media and modes of
reading through which people encountered and made sense of poems,
Cohen traces the lines of critical interpretations and tracks the
emergence and disappearance of poetic genres in American literary
culture. Examining well-known works by John Greenleaf Whittier and
Walt Whitman as well as popular ballads, minstrel songs, and
spirituals, Cohen shows how discourses on poetry served as sites
for debates over history, literary culture, citizenship, and racial
identity.
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