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Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1409420868
ISBN13: 9781409420866
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 28 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson's study shows that an author's use or rejection of the conventions of memorial literature speaks to their positions within debates about gender, national identity and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic representation, and structures of authorship and literary authority.

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