Death's door
Subtitle: modern dying and the ways we grieve
By: Sandra M. Gilbert
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Grief; Death; Attitude to Death; Social aspects; Bereavement; Mourning customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-553) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief; title: Death opens; title: Widow; title: Yahrzeit; title: E-mail to the dead; title: Writing wrong; title: 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning; title: Expiration/termination; title: Technologies of death; title: Technologies of dying; title: A day in the death of ...; title: Millennial mourning; title: 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation; title: On the beach with Sylvia Plath; title: Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier?; title: "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral; title: Monsters of elegy; title: Apocalypse now (and then).