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