Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-337) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Tracking the tear -- Moments more concentrated than hours : grief and the textures of time -- Evocations : the romance of Indian lament -- Securing time : maternal melancholia and sentimental domesticity -- Slavery's ruins and the countermonumental impulse -- Representative mournfulness : nation and race in the time of Lincoln -- Coda : everyday grief.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.