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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship
- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley
- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will"
- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat
- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system"
- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma
- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead.