| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction | 3 | | Pt. I | A Century of Tears | | | 1 | Elegia and the Enlightenment | 19 | | 2 | Written Wailings | 48 | | 3 | Burke, Paine, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Sympathy | 73 | | Pt. II | Authentic Epitaphs | | | 4 | "The Impotence of Grief": Wordsworth's Genealogies of Morals | 117 | | 5 | "This Pregnant Spot of Ground": Bearing the Dead in The Excursion | 151 | | 6 | A Nation's Sorrows, a People's Tears: The Politics of Mourning Princess Charlotte | 196 | | Epilogue | 230 | | Notes | 241 | | Index | 281 | Return to Book Description File created: 11/14/2008 |