Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021 (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
Series:	Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Subjects:	1800-1899 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. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature Authors, American > Psychology Bereavement in literature Children > Death Death in literature Death > Psychological aspects Death > Social aspects Parental grief United States Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of 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.