Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870 /
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2011. |
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Table of Contents:
- Grief and genre
- The imperfect dead: funeral sermons, fallen women, and the early American novel
- American eulogy: William Apess and national mourning
- Geographies of loss: Frederick Douglass and the slave cemetery
- Lincoln's unrest: Walt Whitman and the Civil War cemetery
- Mourning books: the conduct literature of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Emily Dickinson
- The modern genres of grief.