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Hotz Mary Elizabeth <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Literary remains [[electronic resource] ] : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / / Mary Elizabeth Hotz |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-7724-X |
1-4416-0490-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Death in literature |
Dead in literature |
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature |
Burial laws - Great Britain |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing. |
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