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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2018.
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| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38023246*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
