Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Tracking the Tear 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln Coda: Everyday Grief Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

About the Author

Dana Luciano is Associate Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America (2007), which won the 2008 MLA Prize for a First Book. She co-edited, with Ivy G. Wilson, Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (2014), and “Queer Inhumanisms,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, with Mel Y. Chen (2015).

Reviews

"A tour de force of literary-historical scholarship, blending close reading and a broad grasp of nineteenth-century American culture to produce a truly illuminating account of what Luciano calls that culture's attachment to attachment. Tracking the manifold uses to which grief was put in the period, from the most public to the most interior, Luciano makes it possible for the reader to understand the way that grief shapes bodies by shaping time. Arranging Grief will be indispensable reading for scholars of emotion, sexuality, temporality, and the history of national imaginaries."
*Christopher Nealon,author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall*

"An astounding, original, aesthetically profound rethinking of the productive temporalities of loss. A must-read book for any scholar of aesthetics, American literature, sexualityor any wanderer in the field of mourning."
*Lauren Berlant,University of Chicago*

"This is a challenging, far-reaching, and original contribution to the analysis of American culture. . . . Recommended."
*Choice*

"[Luciano] offers astute readings of & chronobiopolitics . . . and argues persuasively for the importance of temporality in an expanded study of the history of sexuality."
*American Literature*