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Angels and absences : child deaths in the nineteenth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lerner, Laurence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Children > Great Britain > Mortality > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Children.
Children > Death > Psychological aspects.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Children in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Real deaths
  • Strategies of consolation : the dead child in poetry
  • The life and death of Paul Dombey, and other child deaths in Dickens
  • Heaven claims its own : child deaths in nineteenth century fiction, and after
  • Sentimentality : for and against.