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Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England
- Author
- Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954-
- Title
- Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / Mary Elizabeth Hotz.
- Format
- E-Book
- Published
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
- Description
- xi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- Access for [SOUTHEAST] Access for [BLOOMINGTON] Access for [EAST] Access for [NORTHWEST] Access for [INDIANAPOLIS] Access for [KOKOMO] Access for [SOUTH BEND] Access for [COLUMBUS]
- Series
- Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index. Available on campus and off campus with authorized login.
- Contents
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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.
- Subject headings
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism. Death in literature. Dead in literature. Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. Burial laws--Great Britain.
- Genre heading
- Electronic books.
- ISBN
- 9780791476598 (alk. paper)