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

Author/creator Lerner, Laurence
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.
Descriptionxiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters. --Children.
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Children--Great Britain. --Mortality. --History. --19th century.
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Children--Death. --Psychological aspects.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Children in literature.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
LCCN 97004572
ISBN0826512879 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PR468.D42 L47 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold