Reconsidering Longfellow / edited by Christoph Irmscher and Robert Arbour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Irmscher, Christoph, editor.

Arbour, Robert, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow's work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Separate contributions discuss Longfellow's financial dealings, his preoccupation with his children, and his interest in the visual arts as well as the tremendous role his poetry did and will once again play in American literature classrooms in the United States. Many of the essays rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site and at the Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Longfellow's Conversations: Weltliteratur as Aesthetic in the Early Poetry / Andrew C. Higgins Higgins, Andrew C. 11

2 Feeling, Controlling, and Transcending: The Negotiation of Sentiment in Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman / Lloyd Willis Willis, Lloyd 33

3 "A Love of Heaven and Virtue": Why Longfellow Sentimentalizes Death / Monica Pelaez Pelaez, Monica 53

4 The Song of Hiawatha and the Ruins of American Literature / James McDougall McDougall, James 71

5 The Sounds of Narrative in Longfellow's Evangeline / Lauren Simek Simek, Lauren 87

6 Westwärts! Westwärts! / Christoph Irmscher Irmscher, Christoph 101

7 The Cultural Career of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" / Matthew Gartner Gartner, Matthew 121

8 Figures Other Than Figures of Speech: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Pursuit of Financial Success / Rob Velella Velella, Rob 139

9 "Not from the Grand Old Masters": The Art of Henry and Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow / Robert Arbour Arbour, Robert 159

10 Conversing with Longfellow: Democratizing the American Literature Curriculum / Lauren Gatti Gatti, Lauren 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611476736

1611476739

OCLC:

860879552