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CONTENTS SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi 1 Form without frontiers 1 2 What was elegy? 11 3 The work of mourning 40 4 The needs of ghosts: modern elegy 66 5 Female elegists and feminist readers 98 6 After mourning: virtual bodies, aporias 122 and the work of dread 7 Elegy diffused, elegy revived 147 GLOSSARY 170 BIBLIOGRAPHY 174 INDEX 185
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Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Literary form -- History.
Mourning customs in literature.
Grief in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Death in literature.