{"product_id":"national-melancholy-mitchell-breitwieser-9780804755818","title":"National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNational Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack Kerouac) who were struggling to understand mourning, both in their own experience and in the abstract. He draws attention to their inquiries into the way mourning gets blocked or diverted, especially into external social interferences with mourning designed to transform mournful emotions into feelings of solidarity with national causes, and into the depression that follows from such false mourning. Emphasizing their struggle to repossess mourning, he argues that for several of them reclaimed mourning opened a door onto a strange and fresh understanding of experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mitchell Breitwieser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804755817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804755818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.48w x 1.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 278","brand":"Mitchell Breitwieser","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926225420543,"sku":"9780804755818","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_49a166d4-c6fa-41cd-941b-1ea9e43ab30b.jpg?v=1681081895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/national-melancholy-mitchell-breitwieser-9780804755818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}