Bearing the Dead:
The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria
Esther Schor

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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

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