Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

by Dana Luciano

Book Overview

2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize
Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814752233
• ISBN13: 9780814752234
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"