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Angels and absences : child deaths in the nineteenth century
Title:
Angels and absences : child deaths in the nineteenth century
Author:
Lerner, Laurence.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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 death in nineteenth century fiction, and after -- Sentimentality : for and against.
ISBN:
9780826512871
Format :
Book