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Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture (Warwick Studies in the Humanities)


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Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture (Warwick Studies in the Humanities)

Author

Frank

Year of Publication

2007

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Pages

250

Language

en

ISBN

0754655288, 9780754655282, 9780754684138

ARI Id

1672369714482


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Introduction: Curious Dreams: Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture
Part 1 Death, Citizenship and the Politics of Mourning
1 Chief Seattle’s Afterlife: Mourning and Cross-Cultural Synthesis In Nineteenth-Century America
2 Escaping the ‘benumbing influence of a present embodied death’: The Politics of Mourning in 1850s African-American Writing
3 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln
4 ‘Stock in dead folk’: The Value of Black Mortality in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5 ‘I cannot bear to be hurted any more’: Suicide as Dialectical Ideological Sign in Nineteenth-Century American Realism
6 Rewriting the Myth of Black Mortality: WEB Du Bois and Charles W Chesnutt
Part 2 Signatures and Elegies
7 ‘I think I was enchanted’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Haunting of American Women Poets
8 God’s Will, Not Mine: Child Death as a Theodicean Problem in Poetry by Nineteenth-Century American Women
9 ‘The little coffin’: Anthologies, Conventions and Dead Children
Part 3 Cultures of Death
10 The Fashion of Mourning
11 ‘At a distance from the scene of the atrocity’: Death and Detachment in Poe’s ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’
12 Spectres on the New York Stage: The (Pepper’s) Ghost Craze of 1863
13 Medusa’s Blinding Art: Mesmerism and Female Artistic Agency In Louisa May Alcott’s ‘A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic’
14 “To surprise immortality”: Spiritualism and Shakerism in William Dean Howells’s The Undiscovered Country
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