Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert.
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 580 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0393051315
- 155.9/37 22
- HQ1073 .G54 2006
- 2006 B-117
- HQ 1073
Contents:
Title Notes:
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).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-553) and index.
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