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

• Main Author: McAllister, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.