Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature
by
Peter Balaam
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
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...