Title Arranging Grief : Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Published New York : NYU Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (357 pages) Series Sexual Cultures Sexual cultures. Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tracking the Tear; 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time; 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament; 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity; 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse; 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln; Coda: Everyday Grief; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author Summary 2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize. Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation's standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth- Analysis Arranging Grief body deployment examines feeling nineteenth-century timepiece Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337) and index Notes Print version record Subject Grief -- Political aspects Grief -- Philosophy Sentimentalism in literature. Time in literature. Grief in literature. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / General. American literature Grief in literature Sentimentalism in literature Time in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814753408 081475340X

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