The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

194 Pages·2004·1.34 MB·English

by  Jake Adam York

LITERARY CRITICISM AND
CULTURAL THEORY
Edited by
William E.Cain
Wellesley College
A ROUTLEDGE SERIES
LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL
THEORY
WILLIAM E.CAIN, General Editor
THE SELF IN THE CELL
Narrating the Victorian Prisoner
Sean Grass
REGENERATING THE NOVEL
Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence
James J.Miracky
SATIRE AND THE POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL
V.S.Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie
John Clement Ball
THROUGH THE NEGATIVE
The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature
Megan Williams
LOVE AMERICAN STYLE
Divorce and the American Novel, 1881–1976
Kimberly Freeman
FEMINIST UTOPIAN NOVELS OF THE 1970s
Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant
Tatiana Teslenko
DEAD LETTERS TO THE NEW WORLD
Melville, Emerson, and American Transcendentalism
Michael McLoughlin
THE OTHER ORPHEUS
A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality
Merrill Cole
THE OTHER EMPIRE
British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire
Filiz Turhan
THE “DANGEROUS” POTENTIAL OF READING
Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth-Century Narratives
Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau
INTIMATE AND AUTHENTIC ECONOMIES
The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin
Thomas Nissley
REVISED LIVES
Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship
William Pannapacker
THE REAL NEGRO
The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
Shelly Eversley
LABOR PAINS
Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott on Work and the Woman Question
Carolyn R.Maibor
NARRATIVE IN THE PROFESSIONAL AGE
Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps
Jennifer Cognard-Black
FICTIONAL FEMINISM
How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women’s Equality
Kim Loudermilk
THE COLONIZER ABROAD
Island Representations in American Prose from Melville to London
Christopher McBride
THE METANARRATIVE OF SUSPICION IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
AMERICA
Sandra Baringer
PROTEST AND THE BODY IN MELVILLE, DOS PASSOS, AND HURSTON
Tom McGlamery
THE ARCHITECTURE OF
ADDRESS
The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
Jake Adam York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data York, Jake Adam. The architecture of
address: the monument and public speech in American poetry/ Jake Adam York. p. c.m.—
(Literary criticism and cultural theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-
415-97058-X (alk. paper) 1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2.
Monuments in litera ture. 3. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892—Criticism and interpretation. 4.
Literature and society—United States. 5. Public opinion in literature. 6. Public spaces inliterature.
7. Architecture in literature. I. Title. II. Series
PS310.M6Y67 2005 811′.509357–dc22 2005010856
ISBN 0-203-51849-7 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-58059-1 (Adobe e-Reader Format)
ISBN 0-203-49106-8 (Print Edition)
Dedicated to the spirit of Ezra Cornell
Contents

Preface x

Chapter 1 Getting in the Way: The Architecture of Address 1
Chapter 2 The Street or Ferry-boat or Public Assembly: Whitman 15

and the Making of Monument
Chapter 3 Crossing Over Brooklyn Ferry: The Bridge as 79

Monument
Chapter 4 In Common: Lowell, Whitman, Crane, and the Makings 117

of a Mode
Chapter 5 In Lowell’s Wake, in Lowell’s Way: The Monumental 141

Mode in the Late Twentieth Century

Notes 154
Bibliography 173
Index 179