Titlebook: Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790–1848; David McAllister Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s

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David McAllisterExamines why the dead were believed to hold a stake in political and social issues, and how reformers sought to distance them from the living.Investigates to what extent the dead influenced social nor

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97731-7Death studies; Wordsworth; Graveyard poetry; Nineteenth century literature; Charles Dickens; nineteenth c

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978-3-030-07396-1The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

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

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Introduction: Revolutionising the Dead: Burke, Paine, De Quincey,able tyrants, whose dead hand prevented the people from governing in their own best interests? Benevolent ancestors, from whom the living had inherited a just society and who therefore deserved their obedience and loyalty? Or something else entirely: a problem to be measured, legislated against, ref

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,Burial, Community, and the Domestic Affections in Wordsworth’s ,ly on their buried presence to link discontiguous generations, if these social goods were to survive in the new century. In doing so, he identifies the ways in which poetry becomes the site of an interaction between the living and the dead, offering poets the opportunity to reimagine the place of th

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,‘The Feelings of the Living and the Rights of the Dead’: Ethics and Emotions; Bodies and Burial; Gorines of utility to the disposal of the dead human body, in an attempt to undermine the ethical basis upon which the dead had traditionally been granted cultural authority by the living. Should the dead be buried, dissected, or, like Bentham, stuffed and mounted and made into ‘auto-icons’? Should th

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