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Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture
Author | : Lucy Frank |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351150227 |
From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.
Suicide in American Fiction, 1798-1909
Author | : Lorna Ruth Wiedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
America, History and Life
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800
Author | : Edward W. R. Pitcher |
Publisher | : Union College Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
An easy-to-use identification manual for plants in eastern United States. Identification is through keys in which the matching of plant characteristics leads to family, genus, species and common name. The book also lists flowering dates, habitat and degree of rarity.
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author | : William Charvat |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780231070775 |
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.