Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England /
Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954-
Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / Mary Elizabeth Hotz. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) - Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century . - SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
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.
English.
9781441604903 (electronic bk.) 1441604901 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Death in literature.
Dead in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Burial laws--Great Britain.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Mort dans la littérature.
Morts dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Burial laws.
Dead in literature.
Death in literature.
English fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR878.D37 / H68 2009eb
823/.8093548
Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / Mary Elizabeth Hotz. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) - Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century . - SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
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.
English.
9781441604903 (electronic bk.) 1441604901 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Death in literature.
Dead in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Burial laws--Great Britain.
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Mort dans la littérature.
Morts dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Burial laws.
Dead in literature.
Death in literature.
English fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR878.D37 / H68 2009eb
823/.8093548