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Arranging Grief : Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America.

2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize. Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luciano, Dana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2007.
Colección:Sexual cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tracking the Tear; 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time; 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament; 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity; 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse; 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln; Coda: Everyday Grief; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.