Exploring grief : towards a sociology of sorrow /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- (Editor), Petersen, Anders, 1973- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:	Bereavement > Social aspects. Grief > Social aspects. Emotions > Sociological aspects. Bereavement in literature. Grief in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: towards a sociology of grief: historical, cultural and social explorations of grief as an emotion / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen
Grief in modern history: an ongoing evolution / Peter N. Stearns
Diversity in human grieving: historical and cross-cultural perspectives / Paul C. Rosenblatt
The impact of the two World Wars on cultures of grieving: grief in England, 1914-1980 / Patricia Jalland
Magical thinking: experiences of grief and mourning in George Saunders' Lincoln in the bardo and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, unburied, sing / Kjersti Bale and Hilde Bondevik
A story of loss: self-narration of grief and public feeling rules / Nina R. Jakoby and Fiona A. Anderau
Writing grief: the fraught work of mourning in fiction / Christian Riegel
The denial of grief: reflections from a decade of anthropological research on parental bereavement and child death / Mary Ellen Macdonald
Public mourning: displays of grief and grievance / Jack Santino
Grief in human and companion-animal loss, bonding and dividual pet-personhood / Douglas J. Davies
The medicalisation of grief / Allan V. Horwitz
Suffocated grief, resilience and survival among African-American families / Tashel C. Bordere
Grief in an individualised society: a critical corrective to the advancement of diagnostic culture / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen.