{"product_id":"the-social-lives-of-poems-in-nineteenthcentury-america-9780812247084","title":"The Social Lives of Poems in NineteenthCentury","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America illuminates the connections between poems and critical ideas about poetic genres, and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poems and poets in American culture by examining how people encountered and made sense of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Social Lives of Poems\u003c\/i\u003e situates a lucid and forceful argument around an array of valuable primary sources. Cohen's thorough engagement with recent scholarship on the ballad, nineteenth-century reform movements, and performance studies only highlights the innovations of his own research and the impressive contribution his wide-ranging and rigorous study makes to the study of American literary culture and the value of poems never read or now forgotten.\" * \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A truly magisterial work, brimming with extraordinary original research. The book is rich, precise, and emphatically various in details, but not lost in them.\" * Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College *\u003cbr\u003e\"Richly grounded in archival research, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e works outward from individual cases to make broadly important, powerful, and persuasive claims about the central role of poetry in the formation of a nineteenth-century racial and national imaginary.\" * Eliza Richards, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Balladmongering and Social Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Poetics of Reform\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Contraband Songs\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Old Ballads and New Histories\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Reconstruction of American Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Minstrels' Trail\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405725475159,"sku":"9780812247084","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-lives-of-poems-in-nineteenthcentury-america-9780812247084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}