Arranging grief
Subtitle: sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America
By: Dana Luciano
Series: Sexual cultures
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780814752227; 9780814752234
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Grief in literature; Time in literature; Sentimentalism in literature; Grief -- Philosophy; Grief -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-337) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Tracking the tear; title: Moments more concentrated than hours : grief and the textures of time; title: Evocations : the romance of Indian lament; title: Securing time : maternal melancholia and sentimental domesticity; title: Slavery's ruins and the countermonumental impulse; title: Representative mournfulness : nation and race in the time of Lincoln; title: Coda : everyday grief