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

This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines why Romantic and Victorian writers (including Wordsworth, Dickens, De Quincey, Godwin, and D'Israeli) believed that influencing the imaginative conception of the dead was a way t...

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Hlavný autor: McAllister, David (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydanie:1st ed. 2018.
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Literature, Modern-19th century.
British literature.
ISBN:9783319977317
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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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