Reconsidering Longfellow - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611478685 ISBN 13: 9781611478686

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Separate contributions discuss Longfellow’s financial dealings, his preoccupation with his children, and his interest in the visual arts, as well as the tremendous role his poetry did and will once again play in American literature classrooms in the U.S. All essays were written specifically for the volume. Many of them rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this title

About the Author

Christoph Irmscher is provost professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington.

Robert Arbouris a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Indiana University Bloomington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611478685
• ISBN 13: 9781611478686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Irmscher Christoph