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

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

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Death in literature.
Death in literature.
Bereavement in literature.
Bereavement in literature.
Children -- Death.
Children -- Death.
Parental grief.
Parental grief.
Authors, American -- Psychology.
Authors, American -- Psychology.
Authors, American.
Death -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Death.
United States.
Psychological aspects.
History.
Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Death -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Children.
Added Title Parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors
Other Form: Print version: Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956- Continuing bonds with the dead 9780817319021 (DLC) 2015029783 (OCoLC)926105912
ISBN 9780817389543 (electronic book)
0817389547 (electronic book)
9780817319021
0817319026