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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451353303321

Titolo

Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy E. Frank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007

ISBN

1-351-15022-7

1-281-89369-2

9786611893699

0-7546-8413-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Warwick studies in the humanities

Altri autori (Persone)

FrankLucy Elizabeth <1973->

Disciplina

810.9/3548

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.