LEADER 04178nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910780048803321 005 20230421041404.0 010 $a1-282-75206-5 010 $a9786612752063 010 $a1-4008-2148-7 010 $a1-4008-1333-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821488 035 $a(CKB)111056486502492 035 $a(EBL)581653 035 $a(OCoLC)700688686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109408 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109408 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045601 035 $a(PQKB)11349385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581653 035 $a(OCoLC)51575494 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35965 035 $a(DE-B1597)446095 035 $a(OCoLC)979581290 035 $a(OCoLC)984592614 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581653 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031962 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275206 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486502492 100 $a19940314d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|na|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr 200 10$aBearing the dead$b[electronic resource] $ethe British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria /$fEsther Schor 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 1 $aLiterature in history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-03396-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-279) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tPART I: A CENTURY OF TEARS --$tPART II: AUTHENTIC EPITAPHS --$tEPILOGUE --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aEsther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history. 410 0$aLiterature in history (Princeton, N.J.) 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMourning customs$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMourning customs$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain 606 $aMourning customs in literature 606 $aGrief in literature 606 $aDeath in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMourning customs$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMourning customs$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and history 615 0$aMourning customs in literature. 615 0$aGrief in literature. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 676 $a821/.009/354 700 $aSchor$b Esther H$01464687 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780048803321 996 $aBearing the dead$93674452 997 $aUNINA