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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821082803321

Autore

Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >

Titolo

Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8173-8954-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Disciplina

810.9/3548

Soggetti

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

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

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.