Death and the Enlightenment : changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France
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McManners, John.
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HQ1073.5.F8 M25 1985
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LC Subjects
Death -- History -- 18th century.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
OCLC Fast Subjects
Death
France -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
History
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
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Attitude to Death
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France -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle.
France -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle.
Frankreich
Mort -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
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vii, 619 pages ; 20 cm.
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English

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

McManners, J. (1985). Death and the Enlightenment: changing attitudes to death among Christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century France . Oxford University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McManners, John. 1985. Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McManners, John. Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

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McManners, J. (1985). Death and the enlightenment: changing attitudes to death among christians and unbelievers in eighteenth-century france. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

McManners, John. Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France Oxford University Press, 1985.

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