Representations of Death in Nineteenth-century US Writing and CultureLucy Elizabeth Frank Ashgate Pub., 2007 - 234 стор. From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, |
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... Mother , soon after her Infant Son ' , Sigourney lets the mother have the ' victory ' , trumping God by turning his ' discipline ' into her own demise . Her adored child dead , ' she who bore him shrank not ' neath the rod , / Laying ...
... Mother , soon after her Infant Son ' , Sigourney lets the mother have the ' victory ' , trumping God by turning his ' discipline ' into her own demise . Her adored child dead , ' she who bore him shrank not ' neath the rod , / Laying ...
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... mother always near ' , making the obvious but necessary comparison between what it means to die rich and what it means to die poor . The poem ends inconclusively with the child's last plea that his mother not leave him : ' But mother ...
... mother always near ' , making the obvious but necessary comparison between what it means to die rich and what it means to die poor . The poem ends inconclusively with the child's last plea that his mother not leave him : ' But mother ...
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... Mother's ' grief with that of the ' weeping mother ' - casts those lines , paradoxically , as ' gender - neutral ' references to the ' weeping mother ' . The speaking ' I's ' exhortation to God - ' God cheer the childless mother ' ( 9 ) ...
... Mother's ' grief with that of the ' weeping mother ' - casts those lines , paradoxically , as ' gender - neutral ' references to the ' weeping mother ' . The speaking ' I's ' exhortation to God - ' God cheer the childless mother ' ( 9 ) ...
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Mourning and CrossCultural Synthesis | 15 |
Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln | 43 |
The Value of Black Mortality in Mark Twains | 61 |
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