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National Melancholy : Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature by Mitchell Breitwieser is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is National Melancholy : Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature about?
In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack Kerouac) who were struggling to understand mourning, both in their own experience and in the abstract. He draws attention to their inquiries into the way mourning gets blocked or diverted, especially into external social interferences with mourning designed to transform mournful emotions int
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mitchell Breitwieser
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781503626416
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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