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

by David McAllister

Book Overview

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"