Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790-1848

Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790-1848

McAllister, David

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2018

227

Dura

Inglês

9783319977300

15 a 20 dias

454

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1. Introduction: Revolutionizing the Dead: Burke, Paine, De Quincey.- 2. Burial, Community, and the Domestic Affections in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads.- 3. 'The Feeling of the Living and the Rights of the Dead': Ethics and Emotions; Bodies and Burial; Godwin and Bentham.- 4. Death in the Schoolroom: Associationist Education and Children's Poetry Books.- 5. Better Thoughts of Death: Psychology, Sentimentalism and Garden-Cemetery Aesthetics in The Old Curiosity Shop.- 6. Conclusion.
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Death studies;Wordsworth;Graveyard poetry;Nineteenth century literature;Charles Dickens;nineteenth century death culture;Victorian social attitudes to death;British and Irish Literature