This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflections of modernity. The study of burial in United States history tends to focus on mid- to late-nineteenth century movements that distance the dead from the living. This dissertation argues that these practices left Americans ill-equipped to process the influx of death from the conflict areas of World War I, keen to allow the further development of the funeral industry during the interwar period, and anxious about the certain rise in death tolls that would result from World War II. Interwar literature, therefore, exhibits a difficulty in meaning-making that extends to the increased death toll and the modernization of deathways between the world ...
textThis dissertation is a transnational study that argues that a structure of mourning, spoken thro...
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially wit...
Here’s what we already know—during the First World War, soldiers and civilians often had remarkably ...
This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflectio...
This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflectio...
This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflectio...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of t...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of t...
333 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.This dissertation describes a...
333 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.This dissertation describes a...
This dissertation answers the question: How can art represent the essential human experience of deat...
This dissertation answers the question: How can art represent the essential human experience of deat...
In recent years, scholars have emphasized the importance of collective memory in the making of natio...
Author Ian Finseth, in The Civil War Dead and American Modernity, has mined the graveyards, remains,...
textThis dissertation is a transnational study that argues that a structure of mourning, spoken thro...
textThis dissertation is a transnational study that argues that a structure of mourning, spoken thro...
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially wit...
Here’s what we already know—during the First World War, soldiers and civilians often had remarkably ...
This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflectio...
This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflectio...
This dissertation aims to study literary representations of interwar American deathways as reflectio...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of t...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ritualization of death in British literature of t...
333 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.This dissertation describes a...
333 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.This dissertation describes a...
This dissertation answers the question: How can art represent the essential human experience of deat...
This dissertation answers the question: How can art represent the essential human experience of deat...
In recent years, scholars have emphasized the importance of collective memory in the making of natio...
Author Ian Finseth, in The Civil War Dead and American Modernity, has mined the graveyards, remains,...
textThis dissertation is a transnational study that argues that a structure of mourning, spoken thro...
textThis dissertation is a transnational study that argues that a structure of mourning, spoken thro...
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially wit...
Here’s what we already know—during the First World War, soldiers and civilians often had remarkably ...