{"product_id":"national-melancholy-9780804755818","title":"National Melancholy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreitwieser's close readings reveal that the thwarting of mourning, partly linked to nationalist feeling, was a central issue for many American authors, but that those who successfully reclaimed mourning came to strange and fresh understandings of the actual world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Breitwieser has been working for almost two decades on the psycho-political tangle of representing loss, to which he brings an especially philosophical focal length and evocative way with language. National Melancholy is, above all things, a book meant to be \u003ci\u003eread \u003c\/i\u003e, not just an argument to be summarized and circulated.\" —Thomas Ferraro, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\"According to \u003ci\u003eNational Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, American writers believe in what Michael Breitweiser concisely identifies as the \"not-yet\" rather than the \"no-more.\" American literature is committed, that is, to imagining the nation as a state of \"permanent futurity\". Despite this devotion to the \"not-yet,\" however, the \"no-more,\" as Breitweiser's highly impressive and extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of essays amply demonstrates, is not so easily left behind.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNovel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNational Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most important books on American literature of the last decade. Breitwieser makes an astonishing case that a thwarted mourning process has been a precipitant phenomenon in the production of a large number of classic American texts. The book itself constitutes a successful act of mourning through the discovery of a language with which to confess, unburden, and move forward.\" -- Jay Fleigelman * Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface\tx  1. Introduction: The Time of the Double Not\t000  2. Early American Antigone: Anne Bradstreet\t000  3. Thomas Jefferson's Prospect\t000  4. Who Speaks (and Who Writes) in Walt Whitman's Poems?\t000  5. Henry David Thoreau and the Wrecks on Cape Cod\t000  6. Losing Deephaven: Sarah Orne Jewett, Regionalism, and the Art of Loss\t000  7. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and the Puzzle of Inherited Mourning\t000  8. Jazz Fractures: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Epochal Representation\t000  Notes\t000  Works Cited\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405568450903,"sku":"9780804755818","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804755818.jpg?v=1730492864","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/national-melancholy-9780804755818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}