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Author:
Balaam, Peter, 1963- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00052339
Title:
Misery's mathematics : mourning, compensation, and reality in antebellum American literature / Peter Balaam.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xiv, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Grief in literature.
Bereavement in literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
Warner, Susan,--1819-1885.--Wide, wide world.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891.--Piazza tales.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-180) and index.
Contents:
"The laws of our learning" : Emerson's grief and the geological principles of loss -- Playing with water : thrill and theodicy in The wide, wide world -- Representing grief, mourning representation : Melville's Piazza tales.
Series:
Literary criticism and cultural theory
ISBN:
0415968070
9780415968072
OCLC:
(OCoLC)298541251
LCCN:
2009000547
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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