Romantic posthumous life writing: inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration

Thesis

Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re-conceives ‘posthumous life’ as...

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Authors: Chiou, T

• Publication date: 2012-11-30
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-dewoqwydg
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: John Locke; Romanticism; elegy; Francis Bacon; Felicia Hemans; death study; autography; posthumous writing; William Hazlitt; Abraham Tucker; visual portraiture; biography; Letitia Elizabeth Landon; funerary architecture; William Wordsworth; William Godwin; Samuel Johnson; genre study; effusion; epistolary writing; moral philosophy; Benjamin R. Haydon; eighteenth century; women's writing; mourning and commemoration; epitaph
• Subjects: English Language and Literature