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

ISBN-13: 9783030073961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 227 str.

David McAllister

Recenzje

"Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790-1848, is a surprising book ... . Imagining the Dead draws upon sources of an imaginative and historical nature, blending literature, politics, educational psychology and social history to identify a unique, convincing and rather unexpected narrative that traverses periodic boundaries to connect two significant phases of development in the cultural history of death in Britain. It is a highly commendable addition to what is a burgeoning field of study." (Eric Parisot, The Review of English Studies, June 25, 2019)

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

David McAllister is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a Director of the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. He has published articles on a range of Victorian and Romantic writers, including Dickens, Carlyle, Wordsworth, and Gaskell.