Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy E. Frank
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| Titolo: |
Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy E. Frank
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| Pubblicazione: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3548 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
FrankLucy Elizabeth <1973->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture |
| ISBN: | 1-351-15022-7 |
| 1-281-89369-2 | |
| 9786611893699 | |
| 0-7546-8413-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451353303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Warwick studies in the humanities.