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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021, author.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Death in literature.

Bereavement in literature.

Children--Death.

Children.

Parental grief.

Authors, American--Psychology.

Authors, American.

Death--United States--Psychological aspects--History--19th century.

Death.

Death--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death--Social aspects.

History.

Psychological aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780817319021

0817319026

OCLC:

926105912