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Title Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / Harold K. Bush.
Author Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956- author.
Publisher Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 9  English XA217.D4 BUS  

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Description xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780817319021 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography 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.
Library Class English XA217.D4
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Bereavement in literature.
Children -- Death.
Parental grief.
Authors, American -- Psychology.
Death -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Alt Title Parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors

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