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The social lives of poems in nineteenth-century America / Michael C. Cohen.

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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 po...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cohen, Michael C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
Books and reading > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Poetry > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
American poetry.
Books and reading > Social aspects.
Literature and society.
Poetry > Social aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem
  • Chapter 1. Balladmongering and Social Life
  • Chapter 2. Th e Poetics of Reform
  • Chapter 3. Contraband Songs
  • Chapter 4. Old Ballads and New Histories
  • Chapter 5. The Reconstruction of American Poetry
  • Chapter 6. The Minstrels' Trail
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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