Imagining the dead in British literature and culture, 1790-1848. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: McAllister, David
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Revolutionising the Dead: Burke, Paine, De Quincey; Edmund Burke and the Ancestral Dead; 'Government Is for the Living': Thomas Paine and the Tyrannical Dead; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Burial, Community, and the Domestic Affections in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth and the Politics of Generational Cohesion; The Dead and the Domestic and Social Affections; Demography and the Dead; Bibliography; Chapter 3: 'The Feelings of the Living and the Rights of the Dead': Ethics and Emotions; Bodies and Burial; Godwin and Bentham Utility and the Authority of the Dead in Bentham's The Book of FallaciesThe Utility of Emotion and the Value of the Dead: Godwin's Essay on Sepulchres; Writing Bentham's Death; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Death in the Schoolroom: Associationist Education and Children's Poetry Books; Rejecting Inherited Death Cultures: Graveyard Imagery and Graveyard Poets; Associationist Education; The Dead in Domestic Advice Manuals; 'What Should It Know of Death?' Anthologising 'We Are Seven'; Bibliography Chapter 5: Dickens's 'Better Thoughts of Death': Psychology, Sentimentalism, and the Garden-Cemetery Aesthetic of The Old Curiosity ShopLearning to Die with Little Nell; Mingling 'The Grave with the Gay': Aesthetics, Associationism, and the Rise of the Cemetery; The Old Curiosity Shop and Cemetery Aesthetics; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Bibliography; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.709355; Literature; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Dead in literature; Death -- Great Britain -- Civilization; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature: history & criticism; British literature; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319977317; 3319977318
• Related ISBNs: 331997730X; 9783319977300
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