Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture / / edited by Lucy E. Frank, University of Warwick, UK |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 810.93548 |
Collana | Warwick Studies in the Humanities |
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 |
ISBN |
1-351-15024-3
1-351-15023-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part, 1 Death, Citizenship and the Politics of Mourning -- chapter Introduction Curious Dreams -- Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture / Lucy Frank -- chapter 1 Chief Seattle's Afterlife -- Mourning and Cross-Cultural Synthesis in Nineteenth-Century America / John J. Kucich -- chapter 2 Escaping the 'benumbing influence of a present embodied death' -- The Politics of Mourning in 1850s African-American Writing / Jeffrey Steele -- chapter 3 Representative Mournfulness -- Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln / Dana Luciano -- chapter 4 'Stock in dead folk' -- The Value of Black Mortality in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 / Stephen Shapiro -- chapter 5 'I cannot bear to be hurted any more' -- Suicide as Dialectical Ideological Sign in Nineteenth-Century American Realism / Kevin Grauke -- chapter 6 Rewriting the Myth of Black Mortality -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles W. Chesnutt / Joanne van der Woude -- part, 2 Signatures and Elegies -- chapter 7 'I think I was enchanted' -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Haunting of American Women Poets / Alison Chapman -- chapter 8 God's Will, Not Mine -- Child Death as a Theodicean Problem in Poetry by Nineteenth-Century American Women / Paula Bernat Bennett -- chapter 9 'The little coffin' -- Anthologies, Conventions and Dead Children / Jessica F. Roberts -- part, 3 Cultures of Death -- chapter 10 The Fashion of Mourning / Ann Schofield -- chapter 11 'At a distance from the scene of the atrocity' -- Death and Detachment in Poe's 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- chapter 12 Spectres on the New York Stage -- The (Pepper's) Ghost Craze of 1863 / Dassia N. Posner -- chapter 13 Medusa's Blinding Art -- Mesmerism and Female Artistic Agency in Louisa May Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic' / Ann Heilmann -- chapter 14 'To surprise immortality' -- Spiritualism and Shakerism in William Dean Howells's The Undiscovered Country / Kelly Richardson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795585803321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2018 | ||
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Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture / / edited by Lucy E. Frank, University of Warwick, UK |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 810.93548 |
Collana | Warwick Studies in the Humanities |
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 |
ISBN |
1-351-15024-3
1-351-15023-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part, 1 Death, Citizenship and the Politics of Mourning -- chapter Introduction Curious Dreams -- Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture / Lucy Frank -- chapter 1 Chief Seattle's Afterlife -- Mourning and Cross-Cultural Synthesis in Nineteenth-Century America / John J. Kucich -- chapter 2 Escaping the 'benumbing influence of a present embodied death' -- The Politics of Mourning in 1850s African-American Writing / Jeffrey Steele -- chapter 3 Representative Mournfulness -- Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln / Dana Luciano -- chapter 4 'Stock in dead folk' -- The Value of Black Mortality in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 / Stephen Shapiro -- chapter 5 'I cannot bear to be hurted any more' -- Suicide as Dialectical Ideological Sign in Nineteenth-Century American Realism / Kevin Grauke -- chapter 6 Rewriting the Myth of Black Mortality -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles W. Chesnutt / Joanne van der Woude -- part, 2 Signatures and Elegies -- chapter 7 'I think I was enchanted' -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Haunting of American Women Poets / Alison Chapman -- chapter 8 God's Will, Not Mine -- Child Death as a Theodicean Problem in Poetry by Nineteenth-Century American Women / Paula Bernat Bennett -- chapter 9 'The little coffin' -- Anthologies, Conventions and Dead Children / Jessica F. Roberts -- part, 3 Cultures of Death -- chapter 10 The Fashion of Mourning / Ann Schofield -- chapter 11 'At a distance from the scene of the atrocity' -- Death and Detachment in Poe's 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- chapter 12 Spectres on the New York Stage -- The (Pepper's) Ghost Craze of 1863 / Dassia N. Posner -- chapter 13 Medusa's Blinding Art -- Mesmerism and Female Artistic Agency in Louisa May Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic' / Ann Heilmann -- chapter 14 'To surprise immortality' -- Spiritualism and Shakerism in William Dean Howells's The Undiscovered Country / Kelly Richardson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828144203321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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