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Author:

Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956- author.

Title:

Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / Harold K. Bush.

Publisher:

The University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Bereavement in literature.
Children--Death.
Parental grief.
Authors, American--Psychology.
Death--United States--History--History--19th century.
Death--History--United States--History--19th century.
American literature.
Authors, American--Psychology.
Bereavement in literature.
Children--Death.
Death in literature.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Death--Social aspects.
Parental grief.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-230) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

0817319026
9780817319021

OCLC:

(OCoLC)926105912

LCCN:

2015029783

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)