Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning / Adam C. Bradford ; jacket design, Jennifer Cropp.
"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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