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Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies for George Washington with William Apess''s Eulogy for King Philip to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous history; examines Frederick Douglass''s use of the slave cemetery to represent the costs of slavery for African American families; suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman''s war elegies; and offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps''s The Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson''s poetry as works that explore the consequences of female writer

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/15/2016 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781138261129, 978-1138261129
      ISBN10: 1138261122
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      Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies for George Washington with William Apess''s Eulogy for King Philip to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous history; examines Frederick Douglass''s use of the slave cemetery to represent the costs of slavery for African American families; suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman''s war elegies; and offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps''s The Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson''s poetry as works that explore the consequences of female writer

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