Title :

The Disappearance of the Dead From Real and Imaginary Epitaphs of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England

Author(s) :

Dutoit, Thomas [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]

Scientific editor(s) :

Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter

Book title :

Les pierres de l'offrande. Autour de l'oeuvre de Christoph W. Clairmont

Publisher :

Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie

Publication place :

Zurich, Switzerland

Publication date :

2003

ISBN :

3-905083-19-1

English keyword(s) :

Disappearance
Elegy
English history
Poetry of 17th and 18th century
Epitaphs

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures

English abstract : [en]

This article pinpoints the decisive moment of the two hundred year "life" of the poetic genre of the epitaph, with the context both of funerary monuments and social history in England. By following the history of epitaphic ...
Show more >This article pinpoints the decisive moment of the two hundred year "life" of the poetic genre of the epitaph, with the context both of funerary monuments and social history in England. By following the history of epitaphic inscriptions, this article records the change in the relationship of the living and the dead from early modern England to what we would call our modernity. The dead, already disappeared but still among the living in early modern England, underwent a second and irrevocable disappearance once the value of the permanence of the dead succumbed to the value of the ephemerality of the living in a society based evermore on accelerating change and the privilege of the present over past and future.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL