Continuing bonds with the dead [electronic resource] :parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / Harold K. Bush.
By: Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl).
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.Publisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817389543; 0817389547.Subject(s): Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Death -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century | Authors, American -- Psychology | Parental grief | Children -- Death | Bereavement in literature | Death in literature | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 810.9/3548 Online resources: Full text available: 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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