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The social lives of poems in nineteenth-century America / Michael C. Cohen.
LIBRA PS316 .C64 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Michael C., author.
- Series:
- Material texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Poetry--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Poetry.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Books and reading--Social aspects.
- History.
- Books and reading.
- Poetry--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Books and reading--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction. how to read a nineteenth-century poem
- Balladmongering and social life
- The poetics of reform
- Contraband songs
- Old ballads and new histories
- The reconstruction of American poetry
- The minstrels' trail
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812247084
- 0812247086
- OCLC:
- 893454920
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