The Resource Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor
Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor
Resource Information
The item Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor 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.
Resource Information
The item Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor 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 British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history. Culminating in a comparison between Victorian and Enlightenment cultures of mourning, her book provides powerful evidence that even as we give life to the dead, the dead shape the lives we are able to live
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 290 pages
- Contents
-
- pt. I.A Century of Tears. 1. Elegia and the Enlightenment. 2. Written Wailings. 3. Burke, Paine, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Sympathy
- pt. II. Authentic Epitaphs. 4. "The Impotence of Grief": Wordsworth's Genealogies of Morals. 5. "This Pregnant Spot of Ground": Bearing the Dead in The Excursion. 6. A Nation's Sorrows, a People's Tears: The Politics of Mourning Princess Charlotte
- Isbn
- 9780691033969
- 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
- Statement of responsibility
- Esther Schor
- Subject
-
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- History
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Grief in literature
- Literature and history -- Great Britain
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- 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 British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history. Culminating in a comparison between Victorian and Enlightenment cultures of mourning, her book provides powerful evidence that even as we give life to the dead, the dead shape the lives we are able to live
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schor, Esther H
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Literature in history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Mourning customs
- English literature
- Mourning customs
- Literature and history
- Mourning customs in literature
- Grief in literature
- Death in literature
- Label
- Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-279) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. I.A Century of Tears. 1. Elegia and the Enlightenment. 2. Written Wailings. 3. Burke, Paine, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Sympathy -- pt. II. Authentic Epitaphs. 4. "The Impotence of Grief": Wordsworth's Genealogies of Morals. 5. "This Pregnant Spot of Ground": Bearing the Dead in The Excursion. 6. A Nation's Sorrows, a People's Tears: The Politics of Mourning Princess Charlotte
- Control code
- 30110911
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691033969
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1624899
- Label
- Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-279) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. I.A Century of Tears. 1. Elegia and the Enlightenment. 2. Written Wailings. 3. Burke, Paine, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Sympathy -- pt. II. Authentic Epitaphs. 4. "The Impotence of Grief": Wordsworth's Genealogies of Morals. 5. "This Pregnant Spot of Ground": Bearing the Dead in The Excursion. 6. A Nation's Sorrows, a People's Tears: The Politics of Mourning Princess Charlotte
- Control code
- 30110911
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691033969
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1624899
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Death in literature
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Grief in literature
- History
- Literature and history -- Great Britain
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Mourning customs in literature
Genre
Member of
Library Links
Embed (Experimental)
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.missouri.edu/portal/Bearing-the-dead--the-British-culture-of/QoG7x0TxyCg/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.missouri.edu/portal/Bearing-the-dead--the-British-culture-of/QoG7x0TxyCg/">Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.missouri.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.missouri.edu/">University of Missouri Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.missouri.edu/portal/Bearing-the-dead--the-British-culture-of/QoG7x0TxyCg/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.missouri.edu/portal/Bearing-the-dead--the-British-culture-of/QoG7x0TxyCg/">Bearing the dead : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria, Esther Schor</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.missouri.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.library.missouri.edu/">University of Missouri Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
