TY  - GEN
T1  - Bearing the Dead : the British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria.
A1  - Schor, Esther
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn700688686
AB  - 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 thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the B.
OP  - 301
CN  - PR468.M63S36 1994
SN  - 9781400821488
SN  - 1400821487
SN  - 9780691033969
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Mourning customs : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - English literature : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Mourning customs : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Literature and history : Great Britain.
KW  - Mourning customs in literature.
KW  - Grief in literature.
KW  - Death in literature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Deuil : Coutumes : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Deuil : Coutumes : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Littérature et histoire : Grande-Bretagne.
KW  - Deuil : Coutumes, dans la littérature.
KW  - Chagrin dans la littérature.
KW  - Mort dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Grief in literature
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - Mourning customs
KW  - Mourning customs in literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -