This event has finished Took place on: Thursday, 19th Feb 2015
Dr David McAllister will discuss attitudes to burial in the years leading up to the birth of the Garden Cemetery movement in the early nineteenth century and the establishment of Highgate Cemetery itself.
His talk will focus on attempts by a series of writers including Wordsworth, Burke, Godwin and Bentham to identify the value of buried bodies, and to establish whether the grave was anything more than an inefficient dumping ground for human remains.
David McAllister is a lecturer in Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and course director of its MA in Victorian Studies.
Doors open at 7pm and wine will be served. The talk starts promptly at 7.30pm and will last about an hour.
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2015-02-19 2015-02-19 Europe/London Buried Treasure? Valuing the Dead in Nineteenth-Century England A talk about the attitudes to burial in the years leading up to the birth of the Garden Cemetery movement. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2015/02/19/buried-treasure-valuing-the-dead-in-nineteenth-century-england-53609 The Chapel Highgate Cemetery West,Swains Lane ,,LondonLocation
The Chapel Highgate Cemetery West,
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N6 6PJ
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