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

Published Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 190 pages) 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 .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-188) and index Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Death in literature. Women in literature. Women -- United States -- Death -- History -- 19th century Women -- Death -- Social aspects -- United States Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Death in literature Women -- Death Women in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Dill, Elizabeth Weinstein, Sheri ISBN 9781443810746 1443810746

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