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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778246903321

Autore

Luciano Dana

Titolo

Arranging grief [[electronic resource] ] : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America / / Dana Luciano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-5340-X

0-8147-5233-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Sexual cultures

Disciplina

810.9/353

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Grief in literature

Time in literature

Sentimentalism in literature

Grief - Philosophy

Grief - Political aspects

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 (p. 321-337) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Tracking the tear -- Moments more concentrated than hours : grief and the textures of time -- Evocations : the romance of Indian lament -- Securing time : maternal melancholia and sentimental domesticity -- Slavery's ruins and the countermonumental impulse -- Representative mournfulness : nation and race in the time of Lincoln -- Coda : everyday grief.

Sommario/riassunto

2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize. Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation's standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-