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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821378503321

Autore

Hotz Mary Elizabeth <1954->

Titolo

Literary remains [[electronic resource] ] : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / / Mary Elizabeth Hotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7914-7724-X

1-4416-0490-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Disciplina

823/.8093548

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Death in literature

Dead in literature

Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature

Burial laws - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.