The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) PDF
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LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY Edited by William E.Cain Wellesley College A ROUTLEDGE SERIES LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY WILLIAM E.CAIN, General Editor THE SELF IN THE CELL Narrating the Victorian Prisoner Sean Grass REGENERATING THE NOVEL Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence James J.Miracky SATIRE AND THE POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL V.S.Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie John Clement Ball THROUGH THE NEGATIVE The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Megan Williams LOVE AMERICAN STYLE Divorce and the American Novel, 1881–1976 Kimberly Freeman FEMINIST UTOPIAN NOVELS OF THE 1970s Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant Tatiana Teslenko DEAD LETTERS TO THE NEW WORLD Melville, Emerson, and American Transcendentalism Michael McLoughlin THE OTHER ORPHEUS A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality Merrill Cole THE OTHER EMPIRE British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire Filiz Turhan THE “DANGEROUS” POTENTIAL OF READING Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth-Century Narratives Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau INTIMATE AND AUTHENTIC ECONOMIES The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin Thomas Nissley REVISED LIVES Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship William Pannapacker THE REAL NEGRO The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature Shelly Eversley LABOR PAINS Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott on Work and the Woman Question Carolyn R.Maibor NARRATIVE IN THE PROFESSIONAL AGE Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Jennifer Cognard-Black FICTIONAL FEMINISM How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women’s Equality Kim Loudermilk THE COLONIZER ABROAD Island Representations in American Prose from Melville to London Christopher McBride THE METANARRATIVE OF SUSPICION IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA Sandra Baringer PROTEST AND THE BODY IN MELVILLE, DOS PASSOS, AND HURSTON Tom McGlamery THE ARCHITECTURE OF ADDRESS The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry Jake Adam York Routledge New York & London Published in 2005 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 http://www.routledge-ny.com/ Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN http://www.routledge.co.uk/ Copyright © 2005 by Taylor & Francis Group, a Division of T&F Informa. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data York, Jake Adam. The architecture of address: the monument and public speech in American poetry/ Jake Adam York. p. c.m.— (Literary criticism and cultural theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0- 415-97058-X (alk. paper) 1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Monuments in litera ture. 3. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892—Criticism and interpretation. 4. Literature and society—United States. 5. Public opinion in literature. 6. Public spaces inliterature. 7. Architecture in literature. I. Title. II. Series PS310.M6Y67 2005 811′.509357–dc22 2005010856 ISBN 0-203-51849-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-58059-1 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-203-49106-8 (Print Edition) Dedicated to the spirit of Ezra Cornell Contents Preface x Chapter 1 Getting in the Way: The Architecture of Address 1 Chapter 2 The Street or Ferry-boat or Public Assembly: Whitman 15 and the Making of Monument Chapter 3 Crossing Over Brooklyn Ferry: The Bridge as 79 Monument Chapter 4 In Common: Lowell, Whitman, Crane, and the Makings 117 of a Mode Chapter 5 In Lowell’s Wake, in Lowell’s Way: The Monumental 141 Mode in the Late Twentieth Century Notes 154 Bibliography 173 Index 179
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