Angels and absences child deaths in the nineteenth century

Angels and absences : child deaths in the nineteenth century / Laurence Lerner.

Author/creator	Lerner, Laurence
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press,
Description	xiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject(s)	Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters. English literature--19th century --History and criticism. Death in literature. Children--Mortality --Great Britain --History --19th century. American literature--19th century --History and criticism. Children--Death --Psychological aspects. Sentimentalism in literature. Children in literature. English-speaking countries--Intellectual life --19th century.

Contents	Real deaths -- Strategies of consolation : the dead child in poetry -- The life and death of Paul Dombey, and other child deaths in Dickens -- Heaven claims its own : child death in nineteenth century fiction, and after -- Sentimentality : for and against.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	97004572
ISBN	0826512879 (alk. paper)

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