The Resource Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
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The item Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the B
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Contents
-
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS
- Isbn
- 9781400821488
- Label
- Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
- Title
- Bearing the Dead
- Title remainder
- the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
- Subject
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- Mourning customs in literature
- English literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Great Britain
- 1700-1899
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- History
- Electronic books
- Mourning customs
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Grief in literature
- Literature and history
- Literature and history -- Great Britain
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Death in literature
- Grief in literature
- Mourning customs in literature
- Death in literature
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the B
- Cataloging source
- MERUC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schor, Esther
- Dewey number
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- 393.90941
- 821/.009/354
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR468.M63S36 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Mourning customs
- English literature
- Mourning customs
- Literature and history
- Mourning customs in literature
- Grief in literature
- Death in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Death in literature
- English literature
- Grief in literature
- Literature and history
- Mourning customs
- Mourning customs in literature
- Great Britain
- Label
- Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS
- Control code
- 700688686
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400821488
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttkj33
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)700688686
- Label
- Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS
- Control code
- 700688686
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400821488
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttkj33
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)700688686
Subject
- 1700-1899
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Death in literature
- Death in literature
- Electronic books
- English literature
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- Grief in literature
- Grief in literature
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and history
- Literature and history -- Great Britain
- Mourning customs
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Mourning customs in literature
- Mourning customs in literature
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