Bearing the Dead : : The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria / / Esther Schor.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 1994 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Literature in History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: A CENTURY OF TEARS
- PART II: AUTHENTIC EPITAPHS
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX