Title Death becomes her : cultural narratives of femininity and death in nineteenth-century America / edited by Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein.

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Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 190 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-188) and index.
Contents	TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SCOOPING UP THE DUST; DYING TO BE HEARD; THE DEAD WOMAN IN THE WALLPAPER; THE REINCARNATION OF THE SENTIMENTAL WOMAN IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE'S PINK AND WHITE TYRANNY; CHARLOTTE TEMPLE, AN AUTOPSY; FAIRY TALES AND PROSTITUTES; QUEER SPECTERS OF ROSE TERRY COOKE AND ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD; THAT'S WHY I'M NOT SO WELL; CONTRIBUTORS; NOTES; INDEX.
Summary	Dead and dying women are surely an age-old narrative trope. While associations of femininity with death have become almost prototypical in literary criticism and are familiar fodder for cultural conversations, the editors of Death Becomes Her offer us an opportunity to investigate the values that underlie such associations. But from where does our tireless investment in what constitutes a feminine death, a feminine reaction to death, and death's courting of women emerge? These essays give vo ...
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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.
	Women in literature.
	Women in literature.
	Women -- United States -- Death -- History -- 19th century.
	Women.
	United States.
	Death.
	History.
	Women -- Death -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Women -- Death.
	Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Added Author	Dill, Elizabeth.
	Weinstein, Sheri.
Other Form:	Print version: Dill, Elizabeth. Death Becomes Her : Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2008 9781847185617
ISBN	9781443810746 (electronic book)
	1443810746 (electronic book)
	1847185614 (hardcover)
	9781847185617 (hardcover)

Title Death becomes her : cultural narratives of femininity and death in nineteenth-century America / edited by Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein.

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