Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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"Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. By drawing on a variety of historical discourses-such as wills, undertaking histories, medical treatises and textbooks, anatomical studies, philosophical treatises, and religious tracts and sermons-this study contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation. As of yet, no single study has collected copious material and literary examples of death and mourning in the period"-- Provided by publisher

Keywords

1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Dead in literature; Death in literature; English fiction; English fiction 18th century History and criticism; Great Britain; History; Human body in literature; Literary criticism; Mourning customs; Mourning customs Great Britain History 18th century; Mourning customs in literature; Relics in literature;

Document Type

Book

ISBN

9781512823776

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

City

Philadelphia

Department

Department of Languages and Literatures

Object Description

xi, 261 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Language

en

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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