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Examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining “before-and-after moment” in their lives as adults and as artists.

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817319021, 978-0817319021
      ISBN10: 0817319026
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Sociology: death and dying

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      Book Synopsis
      Examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining “before-and-after moment” in their lives as adults and as artists.

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