ISBN: 9780814752227

Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative … More...

Charting 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.About the Author:Dana Luciano is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University New Textbooks>Hardcover>Literature>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, New York University Press Core >2 >T<

ISBN: 9780814752227

Hardback, [PU: New York University Press], Offers a fresh view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian and psychoanalytic critic… More...

Hardback, [PU: New York University Press], Offers a fresh view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian and psychoanalytic criticism, this work shows that literary engagements with grief offered ways of challenging deepseated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors., Literary Studies: General<

2007, ISBN: 9780814752227

Hard cover, New., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 345 p. Sexual Cultures, 2., New York, [PU: New York University Press]

ISBN: 9780814752227

hardback, [PU: New York University Press]