Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria.

Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schor, Esther
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t0mh
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS.