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Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve

Title
Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert.
Author
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.

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Description
xxv, 580 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-553) and index.
Contents
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).
Call Number
JFE 06-3045
ISBN
0393051315
LCCN
2004065430
OCLC
  • 57316831
  • vendorOCM57316831
Author
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Title
Death's door : modern dying and the ways we grieve / Sandra M. Gilbert.
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-553) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 06-3045
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