Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria

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Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria

Title remainder

the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria

Creator

• Schor, Esther

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
• 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
• History

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• History

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

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

MERUC

Dewey number

• 393.90941
• 821/.009/354

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR468.M63S36 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries