Ghosts Stay Near Home

In the third of three excerpts from The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Thomas Laqueur looks at the life and afterlife of the churchyard in literature.John Constable, The Church Porch, East Bergholt, 1810In 1806, England’s greatest landscape painter, John Constable, began a series of drawings and oil sketches of the church... Read More »