Arranging grief : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America

Publication Data

• Title Arranging grief : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America
• Author Dana Luciano
• Publisher New York University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: Tracking the tear
Moments more concentrated than hours : grief and the textures of time
Evocations : the romance of Indian lament
Securing time : maternal melancholia and sentimental domesticity
Slavery's ruins and the countermonumental impulse
Representative mournfulness : nation and race in the time of Lincoln
Coda : everyday grief.

Topics

• American literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Grief in literature
• Time in literature
• Sentimentalism in literature
• Grief :: Philosophy
• Grief :: Political aspects

Arranging grief : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America by Dana Luciano. ISBN 9780814752234. Published by New York University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.