Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture

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 a...