Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth CenturyVanderbilt University Press, 1997 - Всего страниц: 252 What is the difference between public and private feeling, and how far can we deduce past feelings from the words that have been left us? Why do child deaths figure so often and so prominently in the literature of the nineteenth century, and how was the theme of the death of a child used to elicit such poignant responses in the readers of that era? In this fascinating new book, Laurence Lerner vividly contrasts the contempt with which twentieth- century criticism so often dismisses such works as mere sentimentality with the enthusiasm and tears of nineteenth-century contemporaries. Drawing examples from both real and literary deaths, Lerner delves into the writings of well-known authors such as Dickens, Coleridge, Shelley, Flaubert, Mann, Huxley, and Hesse, as well as lesser known writers like Felicia Hemans and Lydia Sigourney. In the process, he synthesizes fresh ideas about the thorny subjects of sentimentality, aesthetic judgment, and the function of religion in literature. Lerner's forthright and evocative prose style is enjoyable reading, and he excels in teasing out the moral implications and the psychosocial entanglements of his chosen narrative and lyrical texts. This is a book that will illuminate an important aspect of the history of private life. It should have wide application for those interested in the history, sociology, and literature of the nineteenth century. |
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... happy ; but all the enjoy- ment of happiness is gone , and cannot return . . . . There is nothing in Madiera which ... happy , listening to the songs of the birds , and shaking over me a shower of bright drops , as I gathered the ...
... happy ending . But for the first part of the book she is very like Paul . Paul is called " old - fashioned " and ... happy ending but through death ( which is presented as strenuously happy ) . There is a touch of pathos to the old ...
... happy now . The clergyman who is present asks Charles to explain to them why he is happy , " that we may all here present lay fast hold of the same hope , which is able to make a dying bed so easy . " Charles turns his dying eyes ...