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In National Melancholy, Breitwieser offers close readings of important American writers (Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Jefferson, Walt . Mitchell Breitwieser is Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley

In National Melancholy, 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. Mitchell Breitwieser is Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley. He is is the author of Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality and of American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative.

mourning and opportunity in classic American literature. by Mitchell Robert Breitwieser. Published 2008 by Stanford University Press in Stanford, CA. Written in English.

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States)

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States). Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature. The American literary tradition thus began as part of the broader tradition of English literature.

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Breitwieser, Mitchell. National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Mysterious Obligations: Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 52 (3): 381–406. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Fliegelman, Jay. 1993.

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In Melancholy Politics, Mathy has somewhat revived or at least reinvented French intellectual history, and he does so by avowedly not writing intellectual history. Mathy is masterful on the details and maintains a litterateur’s sense of the pleasures of the text. Mathy does not lose sight of the bigger picture of an age of disenchantment and writes about it in a clear and lucid way. Ultimately, he sees the mourning process not simply as a failure to work through the past but as a possible opportunity for the future. Max Silverman, American Historical.