Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture /

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This collection traces the vicissitudes of the cultural preoccupation with death in nineteenth-century US writing and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frank, Lucy Elizabeth, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2007.
Colección:Warwick studies in the humanities.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Mourning customs in literature.
Indians in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Children in literature.
Suicide in literature.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Death.
Grief.
Attitude to Death
Death
Grief
History, 19th Century
Literature, Modern
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mort dans la littérature.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Suicide dans la littérature.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Mort.
Chagrin.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
deaths.
grief.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
American literature.
Death > Social aspects.
Intellectual life.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
United States
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Curious Dreams: Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture; Part 1 Death, Citizenship and the Politics of Mourning; Part 2 Signatures and Elegies; Part 3 Cultures of Death; Index.

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