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Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century

Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century

Lerner, Laurence

Hardcover

Literary CriticismDeath & DyingGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0826512879
ISBN13: 9780826512871
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.29
Language: English

What is the difference between public and private feeling, and how far can we deduce past feelings from the words that have been left us? Why do child deaths figure so often and so prominently in the literature of the nineteenth century, and how was the theme of the death of a child used to elicit such poignant responses in the readers of that era? In this fascinating new book, Laurence Lerner vividly contrasts the contempt with which twentieth- century criticism so often dismisses such works as mere sentimentality with the enthusiasm and tears of nineteenth-century contemporaries.

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