Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry
Against Vocation
In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation-a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent, non-vocational labor as a necessary sacrifice that frustrates the righteous progress towards realizing that seeminglypurest of callings: Poet.Incorporating the often overlooked or excluded workaday ephemera of three canonical US Romantic poets-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Hart Crane-this volume offers new…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-257330-8
- EAN: 9780192573308
- Produktnummer: 31596723
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'751 KB
- Abbildungen: 11 Illustrations
Über den Autor
After completing his AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2012, Peter Riley was appointed Early Career Fellow in American Literature at the University of Oxford (2012-2014), and then Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Exeter (2014-Present). He has also held Fellowships at the Rothermere American Institute and Linacre College, Oxford. He is a co-founder of BrANCA (British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists), and co-organisedthe inaugural BrANCA symposium 'Aesthetics/Politics' (2013), as well as the third biennial symposium 'The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S' (2017). He also organised the International Walt Whitman Week at Exeter in 2016.
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