LEADER 05388oam 2200637I 450 001 9910795585803321 005 20230120081152.0 010 $a1-351-15024-3 010 $a1-351-15023-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781351150248 035 $a(CKB)4340000000243925 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5228015 035 $a(OCoLC)1019720775 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438658 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000243925 100 $a20180706d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aRepresentations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture /$fedited by Lucy E. Frank, University of Warwick, UK 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (247 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aWarwick Studies in the Humanities 311 $a1-138-62248-6 311 $a0-8153-9147-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $tpart, 1 Death, Citizenship and the Politics of Mourning -- $tchapter Introduction Curious Dreams -- $tRepresentations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture /$r Lucy Frank -- $tchapter 1 Chief Seattle's Afterlife -- $tMourning and Cross-Cultural Synthesis in Nineteenth-Century America /$r John J. Kucich -- $tchapter 2 Escaping the 'benumbing influence of a present embodied death' -- $tThe Politics of Mourning in 1850s African-American Writing /$r Jeffrey Steele -- $tchapter 3 Representative Mournfulness -- $tNation and Race in the Time of Lincoln /$r Dana Luciano -- $tchapter 4 'Stock in dead folk' -- $tThe Value of Black Mortality in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 /$r Stephen Shapiro -- $tchapter 5 'I cannot bear to be hurted any more' -- $tSuicide as Dialectical Ideological Sign in Nineteenth-Century American Realism /$r Kevin Grauke -- $tchapter 6 Rewriting the Myth of Black Mortality -- $tW.E.B. Du Bois and Charles W. Chesnutt /$r Joanne van der Woude -- $tpart, 2 Signatures and Elegies -- $tchapter 7 'I think I was enchanted' -- $tElizabeth Barrett Browning's Haunting of American Women Poets /$r Alison Chapman -- $tchapter 8 God's Will, Not Mine -- $tChild Death as a Theodicean Problem in Poetry by Nineteenth-Century American Women /$r Paula Bernat Bennett -- $tchapter 9 'The little coffin' -- $tAnthologies, Conventions and Dead Children /$r Jessica F. Roberts -- $tpart, 3 Cultures of Death -- $tchapter 10 The Fashion of Mourning /$r Ann Schofield -- $tchapter 11 'At a distance from the scene of the atrocity' -- $tDeath and Detachment in Poe's 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' /$r Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- $tchapter 12 Spectres on the New York Stage -- $tThe (Pepper's) Ghost Craze of 1863 /$r Dassia N. Posner -- $tchapter 13 Medusa's Blinding Art -- $tMesmerism and Female Artistic Agency in Louisa May Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic' /$r Ann Heilmann -- $tchapter 14 'To surprise immortality' -- $tSpiritualism and Shakerism in William Dean Howells's The Undiscovered Country /$r Kelly Richardson. 330 $a"From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aWarwick studies in the humanities. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMourning customs in literature 606 $aIndians in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aChildren in literature 606 $aSuicide in literature 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y19th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aDeath$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aMourning customs in literature. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aChildren in literature. 615 0$aSuicide in literature. 676 $a810.93548 702 $aFrank$b Lucy Elizabeth$f1973- 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795585803321 996 $aRepresentations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture$93747932 997 $aUNINA