Awaiting the heavenly country [[electronic resource] ] : the Civil War and America's culture of death / / Mark S. Schantz |
Autore | Schantz Mark S (Mark Saunders), <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century
War and society - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8014-5925-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Emblems of Mortality" -- Chapter Two. "The Heavenly Country" -- Chapter Three. "Melancholy Pleasure" -- Chapter Four. "A Voice from the Ruins" -- Chapter Five. "Better to Die Free, Than to Live Slaves" -- Chapter Six. "The Court of Death" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460179203321 |
Schantz Mark S (Mark Saunders), <1955->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2008 | ||
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Awaiting the heavenly country [[electronic resource] ] : the Civil War and America's culture of death / / Mark S. Schantz |
Autore | Schantz Mark S (Mark Saunders), <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7/1 |
Soggetto topico |
Death - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century
War and society - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
0-8014-5801-3
0-8014-5925-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Emblems of Mortality" -- Chapter Two. "The Heavenly Country" -- Chapter Three. "Melancholy Pleasure" -- Chapter Four. "A Voice from the Ruins" -- Chapter Five. "Better to Die Free, Than to Live Slaves" -- Chapter Six. "The Court of Death" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789615803321 |
Schantz Mark S (Mark Saunders), <1955->
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2008 | ||
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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
Autore | Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Collana | Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461032203321 |
Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 | ||
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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
Autore | Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Collana | Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN | 0-8173-8954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797965103321 |
Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / / Harold K. Bush |
Autore | Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Collana | Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN | 0-8173-8954-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821082803321 |
Bush Harold K (Harold Karl), <1956-2021, >
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016 | ||
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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-9910795585803321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2018 | ||
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Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy E. Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FrankLucy Elizabeth <1973-> |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-351-15022-7
1-281-89369-2 9786611893699 0-7546-8413-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451353303321 |
Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007 | ||
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Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy E. Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3548 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FrankLucy Elizabeth <1973-> |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-351-15022-7
1-281-89369-2 9786611893699 0-7546-8413-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910528605303321 |
Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007 | ||
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