Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century Us Writing and Culture Tapa dura - 2017

Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. Hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. [CRITICISM]. Ed. Lucy E. Frank. "Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture." Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. English language. Text with black and white illustrations. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 18 oz. xi, 234 pp. Text clean. Like New. ISBN: 9780815391470. "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… Leer más

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Taylor & Francis, 2017. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.33 inches.