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Titolo |
Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy E. Frank |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-15022-7 |
1-281-89369-2 |
9786611893699 |
0-7546-8413-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Collana |
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Warwick studies in the humanities |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FrankLucy Elizabeth <1973-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Death in literature |
Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Mourning customs in literature |
Indians in literature |
African Americans in literature |
Children in literature |
Suicide in literature |
Electronic books. |
United States Intellectual life 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 textual representation of death, imaginative |
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