4. Ritual Mourning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: A Phenomenology of the Book ix
4. Introduction: Toward a Reader-Based Literary History 1
5. 1. The Presence of the Text 21
6. 2. Devotional Steady Sellers and the Conduct of Reading 68
7. 3. Ritual Fasting 107
8. 4. Ritual Mourning 139
9. 5. Race, Literacy, and the Eliot Mission 179
10. Notes 209
11. Bibliography 239
12. Index 255
13. Acknowledgments 263