Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Subtitle: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Mar 15, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780817319021
Description: Harold K. Bush's 'Continuing bonds with the dead' examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining "before-and-after moment" in their lives as adults and as artists. In narrating their struggles, Bush maps the intense field of creative energy induced by revrberating waves of parental grief, and larger nineteenth-century culture of morality and grieving.
Notes: Source title: Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors (Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism)