Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil
The chapter opens with a recent obituary that went viral, in which a daughter bitterly indicted her deceased mother for cruelty and child abuse. It goes on to explore the history of the view that we should speak no ill of the dead, and zeroes in on Julian Hawthorne’s decision to publish pages from his deceased father Nathaniel’s journal cruelly mocking deceased Margaret Fuller. And it notes that that view seems not to depend on whether the claims against the dead are true or false, a distinction central in the law of defamation.
Keywords: obituary, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller
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