Co-published by the Canadian review of comparative literature/Revue canadienne de littérature comparéé, as vol. 30, no. 1 (2003).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.

Introduction : the literary work of mourning / Christian Riegel -- Mourning, heresy, and resurrection in the York Corpus Christi cycle / Leanne Groenveld -- Mourning becomes electric : the politics of grief in Shakespeare's Lucrece / Heather Dubrow -- The king id dead : mourning the nation in the three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI / Lisa Dickson -- Women's poetry of grief and mourning : the languages of lament in sixteenth-century French lyric / Melanie E. Gregg -- Mourning, myth, and merchandising : the public death of Princess Charlotte / Stephen C. Behrendt -- Adam's mourning and the Herculean task in Adam Bede / Barbara Hudspith -- "Hieroglyphics of sleep and pain" : Djuna Barnes's Anatomy of menancholy / Garry Sherbert -- Colossal departures : figuring the lost father in Berryman's and Plath's poetry / Ernest Smith -- Reading the ethics of mourning in the poetry of Donald Hall / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack -- "If only I were Isis" : remembrance, ritual, and writing in Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches / Thomas M.F. Gerry -- Land of their graves : maternity, mourning and nation in Janet Frame, Sara Suleri, and Arundhati Roy / Katherine G. Sutherland -- Using up words in Paul Monette's AIDS elegy / Lloyd Edward Kermode.

All age.