{"product_id":"arranging-grief-sacred-time-and-the-body-in-nineteenth-century-america-9780814752234","title":"Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America","description":"\u003cp\u003e2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eCharting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, \u003cb\u003eArranging Grief\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eNineteenth-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, \u003cb\u003eArranging Grief\u003c\/b\u003e shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dana Luciano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 5.98w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814752234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuciano, Dana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDana Luciano\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Women's \u0026amp; Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eArranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), which won the 2008 MLA Prize for a First Book. She co-edited, with Ivy G. Wilson, \u003ci\u003eUnsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \"Queer Inhumanisms,\" a special issue of \u003ci\u003eGLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, with Mel Y. Chen (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183699734643,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_77f33bad-96bd-4495-9f22-28fca137fc38.jpg?v=1655558129","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/arranging-grief-sacred-time-and-the-body-in-nineteenth-century-america-9780814752234","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}