Arranging grief : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America / Dana Luciano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luciano, Dana.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Grief in literature.

Time in literature.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Grief--Philosophy.

Grief.

Grief--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize. Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation's standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-337) and index.

ISBN:

9780814753408

081475340X

9780814752333

0814752330

OCLC:

779828461