Bound in Alligator Leather 1907 Snow-Bound A Winter Idyl John Greenleaf Whittier

Description: Leather. Small 8vo. Hurst & Company, New York. 1907. 284 pgs. Illustrated with frontispiece. Bound in faded alligator/crocodile leather with gilt title present to the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (leather is fading in some pleaces). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A handsomely produced decorative gift edition of Whittier's very popular antebellum long poem. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem takes place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home for a week, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire. The poem attempts to make the ideal past retrievable. By the time it was published, homes like the Whittier family homestead were examples of the fading rural past of the United States. The use of storytelling by the fireplace was a metaphor against modernity in a post-Civil War United States, without acknowledging any of the specific forces modernizing the country. The raging snowstorm also suggests impending death, which is combated against through the family's nostalgic memories. Scholar Angela Sorby suggests the poem focuses on whiteness and its definition, ultimately signaling a vision of a biracial America after the Civil War. Bound in Alligator Leather 1907 Snow-Bound A Winter Idyl John Greenleaf Whittier Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter

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