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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954-

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Death in literature.

Dead in literature.

Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.

Burial laws--Great Britain.

Burial laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780791477243

079147724X

9781441604903

1441604901

OCLC:

318212467