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Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a first-of-its-kind study of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's late-career poems and biography from
1861 until 1882, covering the poet's posthumous publications and
the handling of his literary estate. Using never-before-discussed
archival materials from Harvard's Houghton Library and Longfellow
House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, including
unpublished poems and poem fragments, this literary biography
presents Longfellow's vibrant and complex final two decades. After
the tragic death of his beloved second wife, Frances (Fanny)
Elizabeth Appleton, Longfellow reinvented himself as a creative
artist, transforming his loss and the nation's suffering in the
Civil War and post-war period into compelling art. In the book,
Jeffrey Hotz interprets the late career's distinct phases,
exploring his narrative poetry, translations, personal lyrics,
religious poetry, aesthetic verse, and end-of-life vision of
mortality as a journey. The book considers Longfellow's friendships
and family life, publication strategies and literary reputation,
and the recurrent theme of longing for an ideal female figure in
his poems and private life. Interweaving unpublished poems and poem
fragments with interpretations of published collections, the book
examines Longfellow's complex voice, which captured the public's
imagination, making him America's most famous poet in the
nineteenth century.
This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional
accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods.
Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and
outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national
American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested
spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel
in fiction and non-fiction, the study uncovers the spatial and
legal conceptions of national identity. The study argues that
imagined geographies in American literature dramatize a linguistic
contest among dominant and marginal voices. Blending
interpretations of canonical authors, such as James Fenimore
Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Herman
Melville, with readings of less well -known writers like Gilbert
Imlay, Elizabeth House Trist, Sauk Chief Black Hawk, William
Grimes, and Moses Roper, the book interprets diverse authors'
impressions of significant spaces migrations. The movements and
regions covered include the Anglo-American migration to the
Trans-Appalachian Valley after the Revolutionary War; the 1803
Louisiana Purchase and Anglo-American travel west of the
Mississippi; the Underground Railroad as depicted in the fugitive
slave narrative and novel; and the extension of American interests
in maritime endeavors off the California coast and in the South
Pacific.
This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional
accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods.
Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and
outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national
American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested
spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel
in fiction and non-fiction, the study uncovers the spatial and
legal conceptions of national identity. The study argues that
imagined geographies in American literature dramatize a linguistic
contest among dominant and marginal voices.
Blending interpretations of canonical authors, such as James
Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and
Herman Melville, with readings of less well -known writers like
Gilbert Imlay, Elizabeth House Trist, Sauk Chief Black Hawk,
William Grimes, and Moses Roper, the book interprets diverse
authors' impressions of significant spaces migrations. The
movements and regions covered include the Anglo-American migration
to the Trans-Appalachian Valley after the Revolutionary War; the
1803 Louisiana Purchase and Anglo-American travel west of the
Mississippi; the Underground Railroad as depicted in the fugitive
slave narrative and novel; and the extension of American interests
in maritime endeavors off the California coast and in the South
Pacific.
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