Angels and Absences
Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century
Published on 1. April 1997
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-8265-1287-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is look at the portrayal of child deaths, actual and literary, throughout the 19th century, exploring the relationship between grief and words, experience and consolation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tennessee
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
12 illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8265-1287-1 (9780826512871)
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Person
Laurence Lerner has taught at the University of Sussex and has served as the Edwin W. Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, from which position he recently retired. He has written a number of important works, including The Frontiers of Literature (Blackwell, 1988), Love and Marriage: Literature and Its Social Context (St. Martin's, 1979), and a collection of poems, Rembrandt's Mirror (Vanderbilt, 1987).