Continuing bonds with the dead parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / [electronic resource] :
Harold K. Bush.
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2016.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism .
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship -- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley -- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will" -- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat -- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system" -- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma -- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead.
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Death--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century. Death--Psychological aspects--History--United States--19th century. Authors, American--Psychology. Parental grief. Children--Death. Bereavement in literature. Death in literature. American literature--History and criticism.--19th century