| Description |
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION The Corpse as Text -- 2 PRESUMPTIVE READINGS -- 3 THE TEXT IN NEGLECT -- 4 APPROPRIATED MEANINGS -- 5 FICTIONS AND FANTASIES -- 6 INVESTIGATIONS AND REVISIONS -- 7 A SURFEIT OF INTERPRETATIONS -- 8 THE CONVERSANT DEAD -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Summary |
Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism, the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English culture and its language. In particular, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries. They constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. These 'texts' accompanied and enhanced the traditional texts of chronicle, literature, and epitaph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Antiquities -- Political aspects -- England
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Exhumation -- England -- History
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Grave robbing -- England -- History
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Nationalism and literature -- England -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Exhumation
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Grave robbing
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Historiography
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Nationalism and literature
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Political aspects
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Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837 -- Historiography
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography
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| Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782049517 |
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1782049517 |
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