Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, And Reality In Antebellum American Literature (Literary Criticism And Cultural Theory)

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render loss in innovative ways. These three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.

• | Author: Peter Balaam
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138981249
• | ISBN-13: 9781138981249