Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870
By: Desirée Henderson
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.; Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781409420866
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Grief in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Grief and genre; title: The imperfect dead: funeral sermons, fallen women, and the early American novel; title: American eulogy: William Apess and national mourning; title: Geographies of loss: Frederick Douglass and the slave cemetery; title: Lincoln's unrest: Walt Whitman and the Civil War cemetery; title: Mourning books: the conduct literature of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Emily Dickinson; title: The modern genres of grief.