Continuing bonds with the dead parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors / Harold K. Bush.

Portion of title Parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors
SeriesStudies in American literary realism and naturalism
Contents Introduction: "continuing bonds" and nineteenth-century American authorship -- Hatty's grief: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the death of Charley -- Lincoln's grief: Willie, Antietam, and the "meditation on the divine will" -- Howells's grief: Winny and the fur-lined overcoat -- Mark Twain's grief: Susy, theodicy, and "systemless system" -- Du Bois's grief: Burghardt and cultural trauma -- Epilogue: "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses": recovering the bonds with the dead.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
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LCCN 2015029783
ISBN9780817319021 (cloth : alk. paper)

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