Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870

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    • Henderson, Desirée

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Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870

Desirée Henderson

Ashgate, c2011

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. [163]-183

Includes index

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内容説明

Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desiree Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies for George Washington with William Apess's "Eulogy for King Philip" to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous history; examines Frederick Douglass's use of the slave cemetery to represent the costs of slavery for African American families; suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman's war elegies; and offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson's poetry as works that explore the consequences of female writers claiming authority over the mourning process. Informed by extensive archival research, Henderson's study eloquently speaks to the ways in which authors adopted, revised, or rejected the conventions of memorial literature, choices that disclose their location within decisive debates about appropriate gender roles and sexual practices, national identity and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic representation, and structures of authorship and literary authority.

目次

  • Contents: Introduction: grief and genre
  • The imperfect dead: funeral sermons, fallen women, and the early American novel
  • American eulogy: William Apess and national mourning
  • Geographies of loss: Frederick Douglass and the slave cemetery
  • Lincoln's unrest: Walt Whitman and the Civil War cemetery
  • Mourning books: the conduct literature of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Emily Dickinson
  • Afterword
  • the modern genres of grief
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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