Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

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Arranging Grief SEXUAL CULTURES: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies General Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies Mandy Merck Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America José Quiroga Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel Greg Forter Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr Foreword by Samuel R. Delany Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion Edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity Paul Morrison The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism Edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces Juana María Rodríguez Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture Frances Negrón-Muntaner Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Marlon B. Ross Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Dwight A. McBride In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives Judith Halberstam God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence Michael Cobb Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual Robert Reid-Pharr The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lázaro Lima Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America Dana Luciano Dana Luciano Arranging Grief Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London a N E W Y O R K U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S New York and London www.nyupress.org© 2007 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Luciano, Dana. Arranging grief : sacred time and the body in nineteenth-century America / Dana Luciano. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5222-7 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN-10: 0-8147-5222-5 (cloth : acid-free paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5223-4 (pbk. : acid-free paper) ISBN-10: 0-8147-5223-3 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. American literature—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Grief in literature. 3. Time in literature. 4. Sentimentalism in literature. 5. Grief—Philosophy. 6. Grief—Political aspects. I. Title. PS217.G75L83 2007 810.9'353—dc22 2007018424 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for Jenn ...