Death and the enlightenment.
McManner, John.
Death and the enlightenment. / John McManner. - , New York : Oxford University Press , 1985. - 619p. : 18cm.
Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of pestilence and plague, and examines the terrible fears connected with childbirth, disease, disfigurement, mortality, and the hereafter. He also examines suicide, public execution, and the rites surrounding the deathbed, and demonstrates how the period's ever-present concern with death and dying was transformed into the Romantic cult of melancholy that occupied the creative imagination of generations to come.
9780192818676
Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
Sociology
Enlightement
John McManner
306.90 MCM
Death and the enlightenment. / John McManner. - , New York : Oxford University Press , 1985. - 619p. : 18cm.
Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of pestilence and plague, and examines the terrible fears connected with childbirth, disease, disfigurement, mortality, and the hereafter. He also examines suicide, public execution, and the rites surrounding the deathbed, and demonstrates how the period's ever-present concern with death and dying was transformed into the Romantic cult of melancholy that occupied the creative imagination of generations to come.
9780192818676
Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
Sociology
Enlightement
John McManner
306.90 MCM
