Angels and absences : child deaths in the nineteenth century /
Lerner, Laurence.
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press,
1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
Real deaths -- Strategies of consolation : the dead child in poetry -- The life and death of Paul Dombey, and other child deaths in Dickens -- Heaven claims its own : child death in nineteenth century fiction, and after -- Sentimentality : for and against.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
English literature
Death in literature.
Children
American literature
Children
Sentimentalism in literature.
Children in literature.