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Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub.,
©2007.
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| Series: | Warwick studies in the humanities.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.