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A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.

Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole and in the context of the poet's career and development.

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I.THE EMPIRICAL ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL -- II.EMPIRICISM AND THE AMERICAN NOVEL -- III.BRACKENRIDGE: IDEAS AND THE MAN OF REASON -- IV.BROWN: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES -- V.COOPER: IDEAS AND LESSONS -- VI.HAWTHORNE: THE INTELLECTUAL AS OUTSIDER -- VII.ISHMAEL AND MELVILLE: THE DEMOCRAT AS MAN THINKING AND MAN CREATING -- INDEX -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 .PROLOGOS -- 2. THE LINEAMENTS OF "FATHER ORPHEUS" -- 3. THE SYMBOLISTE PARALLELS: AN INTERLUDE -- 4. THE RIMBAUD FACTOR -- 5. EPILOGOS -- APPENDIX - SOURCES OF SECTION EPIGRAPHS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS AND LIMITATIONS -- NEMESIS -- STRUCTURE -- II. ABORTION, THIRST, AND THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES -- INTRODUCTION -- ABORTION -- THIRST -- THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES -- CONCLUSION -- III. THE HAIRY APE -- IV. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS -- V. MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: HOMECOMING -- PART TWO: THE HUNTED -- PART THREE: THE HAUNTED -- CONCLUSION -- VI. THE ICEMAN COMETH -- VII. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY