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 -- The modern genres of grief.
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