Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870
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American funeral customs
American Nationalism
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Cemetery Spaces
Charlotte Temple
Conduct Literature
Dead Man
democratic identity studies
Dickinson's Poems
Dickinson’s Poems
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Eulogy Tradition
funeral
Funeral Sermons
gates
Gates Ajar
gender and authorship
Gettysburg National Military Park
Great Awakening
Imperfect Women
Lincoln's Death
Lincoln’s Death
literary mourning practices analysis
Lloyd Family
memorial culture
Mourning Literature
National Cemeteries
nineteenth-century mourning
sermons
slave
Slave Burial
Slave Cemeteries
slavery representation literature
society
Tis Good
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
War Cemeteries
Wye House
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409420866
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies for George Washington with William Apess's "Eulogy for King Philip" to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous history; examines Frederick Douglass's use of the slave cemetery to represent the costs of slavery for African American families; suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman's war elegies; and offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson's poetry as works that explore the consequences of female writers claiming authority over the mourning process. Informed by extensive archival research, Henderson's study eloquently speaks to the ways in which authors adopted, revised, or rejected the conventions of memorial literature, choices that disclose their location within decisive debates about appropriate gender roles and sexual practices, national identity and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic representation, and structures of authorship and literary authority.
Desirée Henderson is Associate Professor of English and Interim Director of Women's Studies at University of Texas Arlington, where she specializes in early American and women's literature.
