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 British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history.
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Book Description 1st edition. Near fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (x, 290 pages). Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-279) and index. Contents; pt. I.A Century of Tears. 1. Elegia and the Enlightenment. 2. Written Wailings. 3. Burke, Paine, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Sympathy -- pt. II. Authentic Epitaphs. 4. "The Impotence of Grief": Wordsworth's Genealogies of Morals. 5. "This Pregnant Spot of Ground": Bearing the Dead in The Excursion. 6. A Nation's Sorrows, a People's Tears: The Politics of Mourning Princess Charlotte. Subjects; 1700-1899. 18th century. 19th century. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Mourning customs Great Britain History 19th century. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Mourning customs Great Britain History 18th century. Literature and history Great Britain. Mourning customs in literature. Grief in literature. Death in literature. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Death in literature. English literature. Grief in literature. Literature and history. Mourning customs. Death Literary depictions. Mourning. England History Social 18th century. England History Social 19th century.England Literature 18th century. England Literature 19th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 395536
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Very Good. In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they sti ll 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, Sch or argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that t hrived 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 hel ps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000044942
Book Description 1st edition. Near fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (x, 290 pages). Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-279) and index. Contents; pt. I.A Century of Tears. 1. Elegia and the Enlightenment. 2. Written Wailings. 3. Burke, Paine, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Sympathy -- pt. II. Authentic Epitaphs. 4. "The Impotence of Grief": Wordsworth's Genealogies of Morals. 5. "This Pregnant Spot of Ground": Bearing the Dead in The Excursion. 6. A Nation's Sorrows, a People's Tears: The Politics of Mourning Princess Charlotte. Subjects; 1700-1899. 18th century. 19th century. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Mourning customs Great Britain History 19th century. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Mourning customs Great Britain History 18th century. Literature and history Great Britain. Mourning customs in literature. Grief in literature. Death in literature. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Death in literature. English literature. Grief in literature. Literature and history. Mourning customs. Death Literary depictions. Mourning. England History Social 18th century. England History Social 19th century.England Literature 18th century. England Literature 19th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 395536
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