Literary remains [[electronic resource] ] : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / / Mary Elizabeth Hotz
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.8093548 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Death in literature | |
| Dead in literature | |
| Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature | |
| Burial laws - Great Britain | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Literary remains |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-7724-X |
| 1-4416-0490-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821378503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.