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From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of ...

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    • Title: Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century Us Writing and Culture by Frank, Lucy, Ms
    • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
    • Print ISBN: 9780754655282, 0754655288
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    • Edition: 2007
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