Continuing Bonds with the Dead : Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


