Literary remains : representation of death and burial in Victorian England / Mary Elizabeth Hotz.

Author/creator Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Dead in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Burial laws--Great Britain.

SeriesSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. ^A493615
Contents Introduction : disinterring death -- Down among the dead : Edwin Chadwick's burial reform discourse in mid-nineteenth-century England -- "Taught by death what life should be" : representations of death in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South -- "To profit us when he was dead" : dead-body politics in Our mutual friend -- Death eclipsed : the contested churchyard in Thomas Hardy's novels -- "The tonic of fire" : cremation in late Victorian England -- Conclusion : Dracula's last word.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
LCCN 2008003240
ISBN9780791476598 (alk. paper)
ISBN0791476596 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 878.D37 H68 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold