Arranging grief sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America / [electronic resource] :
Dana Luciano.
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
- xii, 345 p.
- Sexual cultures .
- Sexual cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-337) and index.
Introduction: Tracking the tear -- Moments more concentrated than hours : grief and the textures of time -- Evocations : the romance of Indian lament -- Securing time : maternal melancholia and sentimental domesticity -- Slavery's ruins and the countermonumental impulse -- Representative mournfulness : nation and race in the time of Lincoln -- Coda : everyday grief.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century Grief in literature. Time in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. Grief--Philosophy. Grief--Political aspects.