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California State University, San Bernardino

2009

Mourning customs in literature

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Whitman, Elegy, And The Nineteenth Century Culture Of Death And Mourning, Susan Renee Nylander Jan 2009

Whitman, Elegy, And The Nineteenth Century Culture Of Death And Mourning, Susan Renee Nylander

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In this thesis, the author offers a close reading and analysis of several of Walt Whitman's elegies and poems about death and mourning through the nineteenth century practices of mourning and death.