Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve /
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2006. - xxv, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-553) and index.
1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then).
0393051315
2004065430
101263419 DNLM
Death--Social aspects.
Grief.
Mourning customs.
HQ1073 / .G54 2006
155.9/37
2006 B-117 HQ 1073 / G466d 2006
Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2006. - xxv, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-553) and index.
1. Arranging my mourning: five meditations on the psychology of grief -- Death opens -- Widow -- Yahrzeit -- E-mail to the dead -- Writing wrong -- 2: History makes death: how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning -- Expiration/termination -- Technologies of death -- Technologies of dying -- A day in the death of ... -- Millennial mourning -- 3: The handbook of heartbreak: contemporary elegy and lamentation -- On the beach with Sylvia Plath -- Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? -- "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral -- Monsters of elegy -- Apocalypse now (and then).
0393051315
2004065430
101263419 DNLM
Death--Social aspects.
Grief.
Mourning customs.
HQ1073 / .G54 2006
155.9/37
2006 B-117 HQ 1073 / G466d 2006