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Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Death in literature |
Bereavement in literature |
Children - Death |
Parental grief |
Authors, American - Psychology |
Death - United States - Psychological aspects - History - 19th century |
Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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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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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. |
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