Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / Adam C. Bradford.

"To twenty-first century readers, nineteenth-century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin -- the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memoriali...

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Main Author: Bradford, Adam C. (Author)
Other title:Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2014]
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Call Number: PS217.D43 B73 2014
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