Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-century America2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize |
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... narrator to compare the man to "one of his own bullocks, drawn by a rope and windlass to the slaughter."52 After the narrator and his wife succeed in converting the drover to Christianity, however, he exchanges his hopeless sorrow for ...
... narrator pauses to explore the mood of the moment, describing Mrs. Bird's emotions upon gathering up some clothes of her dead son Henry to aid in Harry's escape: There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into ...
... narration of which also affords Apess occasion to denounce the institution of slavery, whose advocates he assesses as "worse than . . . beast[s]"88—alike expose the violence that underlies the nation's favored accounts of itself. This ...
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Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano Limited preview - 2007 |
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano No preview available - 2007 |