Communities of death : Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning /

To twenty-first century readers, nineteenth-century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin, the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memorializing pro...

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