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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Sexual cultures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.