Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert.

Author/creator Gilbert, Sandra M.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
Descriptionxxv, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 464-553) and index.
LCCN 2004065430
ISBN0393051315

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HQ1073 .G54 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold