Arranging Grief : Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America / Dana Luciano.
2007
PS217.G75 L83 2007
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Title
Arranging Grief : Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America / Dana Luciano.
Author
Luciano, Dana, author.
ISBN
9780814753408
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814753408.001.0001 doi
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PS217.G75 L83 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9353
Summary
2008 Winner, MLA First Book PrizeCharting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation's standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history.Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of "sacred time" across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.
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Sexual Cultures ; ; 2
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours
2 Evocations
3 Securing Time
4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse
5 Representative Mournfulness
Coda
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours
2 Evocations
3 Securing Time
4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse
5 Representative Mournfulness
Coda
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author