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Bearing the dead [[electronic resource] ] : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria / / Esther Schor



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Autore: Schor Esther H Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bearing the dead [[electronic resource] ] : the British culture of mourning from the enlightenment to Victoria / / Esther Schor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1994
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina: 821/.009/354
Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Mourning customs - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Mourning customs - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Literature and history - Great Britain
Mourning customs in literature
Grief in literature
Death in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-279) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: A CENTURY OF TEARS -- PART II: AUTHENTIC EPITAPHS -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Bearing the dead  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-75206-5
9786612752063
1-4008-2148-7
1-4008-1333-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780048803321
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Serie: Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)