Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture
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Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture
(Warwick studies in the humanities)
Ashgate, c2007
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Little Eva" to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.
目次
- Introduction: Curious dreams: representations of death in 19th-century US writing and culture, Lucy Frank. Part 1 Death, Citizenship and the Politics of Mourning: Chief Seattle's afterlife: mourning and cross-cultural synthesis in 19th-century America, John J. Kucich
- Escaping the 'benumbing influence of a present embodied death': the politics of mourning in 1850s African-American writing, Jeffrey Steele
- Representative mournfulness: nation and race in the time of Lincoln, Dana Luciano
- 'Stock in dead folk': the value of black mortality in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Stephen Shapiro
- 'I cannot bear to be hurted any more': suicide as dialectical ideological sign in 19th-century American realism, Kevin Grauke
- Rewriting the myth of black mortality: W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles W. Chesnutt, Joanne van der Woude. Part 2 Signatures and Elegies: 'I think I was enchanted': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's haunting of American women poets, Alison Chapman
- God's will, not mine: child death as a Theodicean problem in poetry by 19th-century American women, Paula Bernat Bennett
- 'The little coffin': anthologies, conventions and dead children, Jessica F. Roberts. Part 3 Cultures of Death: The fashion of mourning, Ann Schofield
- 'At a distance from the scene of the atrocity': death and detachment in Poe's 'The Mystery of Marie Roget', Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
- Spectres on the New York stage: the (Pepper's) Ghost Craze of 1863, Dassia N. Posner
- Medusa's blinding art: mesmerism and female artistic agency in Louisa May Alcott's 'A Pair of Eyes
- Or, Modern Magic', Ann Heilmann
- 'To surprise immortality': spiritualism and Shakerism in William Dean Howells's The Undiscovered Country, Kelly Richardson. Index.
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