TY - BOOK AU - Luciano,Dana TI - Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America T2 - Sexual Cultures SN - 9780814752227 AV - PS217.G75 L83 2007 U1 - 810.9353 PY - 2007///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Grief in literature KW - Grief KW - Philosophy KW - Political aspects KW - Sentimentalism in literature KW - Time in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Arranging KW - body KW - deployment KW - examines KW - feeling KW - nineteenth-century KW - timepiece N1 - restricted access N2 - 2008 Winner, MLA First Book PrizeCharting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation's standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history.Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of "sacred time" across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814753408 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814753408/original ER -