01912cmm a2200265 4500 214798410 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 100304s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780807136751 electronic bk. 0807136751 electronic bk. (OCoLC)539319549 N$T eng N$T EBLCP YDXCP OCLCQ MHW OCLCQ TxAuBib Skaggs, Carmen Trammell, 1976- Overtones of opera in American literature from Whitman to Wharton [electronic resource] / Carmen Trammell Skaggs. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (163 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-155) and index. Embodying poetic transcendence: Whitman and opera -- Divided attention: the opera house in Poe and Alcott -- An awakening of the artist: opera in Chopin and Cather -- A standard of taste and form: opera in the cosmopolitan world of James and Wharton. In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera--both the art form and the social institution--in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers--including Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton--captured the transformations of a rapidly changing American literary landscape. Although they turned to opera for different reasons, they all saw a twofold function in the art form: a means of expressing a private aesthetic exp. American literature History and criticism. Opera in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. Electronic books. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=301957 EBSCOhost