Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors

by Harold K. Bush

Harold K. Bush's Continuing Bonds with the Dead 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. In narrating their struggles,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817319026
• ISBN13: 9780817319021
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"