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

by David McAllister

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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 to either advance, or resist, social and political reform. This interdisciplinary study contributes to the burgeoning field of Death Studies by drawing on...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3030073963

ISBN13:9783030073961

Release Date:January 2019

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:227 Pages

Weight:0.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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