The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Michael C. Cohen Klappentext Michael C. Cohen teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America illuminates the connections between poems and critical ideas about poetic genres! and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poems and poets in American culture by examining how people encountered and made sense of poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem Chapter 1. Balladmongering and Social Life Chapter 2. The 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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Michael C. Cohen teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Michael C. Cohen teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America illuminates the connections between poems and critical ideas about poetic genres, and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poems and poets in American culture by examining how people encountered and made sense of poetry.

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Introduction. How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem
Chapter 1. Balladmongering and Social Life
Chapter 2. The 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