| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxv, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-553) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then). |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects.
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Death -- Social aspects. |
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Grief.
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Grief. |
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Mourning customs.
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Mourning customs. |
| ISBN |
0393051315 |
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