Literary remains
Subtitle: representation of death and burial in Victorian England
By: Mary Elizabeth Hotz.
Series: Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780791476598
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Death in literature; Dead in literature; Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature; Burial laws -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : disinterring death; title: Down among the dead : Edwin Chadwick and burial reform discourse in mid-nineteenth-century England; title: Taught by death what life should be : representations of death in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South; title: To profit us when he was dead : dead-body politics in Our mutual friend; title: Death eclipsed : the contested churchyard in Thomas Hardy's novels; title: The tonic of fire : cremation in late Victorian England; title: Conclusion : Dracula's last word.