Use the Library Catalog to search for books. HINT: When you find a relevant book, look at the "Subjects" field to find more books on that topic.
Some potentially useful Subject Headings include:
Mourning Customs in Literature
Here a just a few examples:
Communities of Death: Whitman, Poe, and the American culture of mourning by 
American Elegy: The poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman by 
Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville by 
Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America by Secondary Sources in Literature
These databases are very useful for finding secondary research (criticism and theory) about literature. Search for the title of the book, the author, and/or a keyword phrase such as "early American literature".
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These databases will be useful when searching for secondary research related to the time period or historical movement. JSTOR in particular includes journal issues back to the very first issue (limit your search to the decade(s) after an event happened to see what was written about it at that particular time).
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