Adam C Bradford: 1 book
Communities of Death
Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
To 21st century readers, 19th 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 provided opportunities...
