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Henderson, Desiree.

Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870 / Desiree Henderson. - Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2011. - 189 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grief and genre -- The imperfect dead: funeral sermons, fallen women, and the early American novel -- American eulogy: William Apess and national mourning -- Geographies of loss: Frederick Douglass and the slave cemetery -- Lincoln's unrest: Walt Whitman and the Civil War cemetery -- Mourning books: the conduct literature of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Emily Dickinson -- The modern genres of grief.

9781409420866 (alk. paper)


American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Grief in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--1783-1850

PS217.G75 / H46 2011

820.9353 / H496