Cemetery plots from Victoria to Verdun
Subtitle: literary representation of epitaph and burial from the 19th century through The great war
By: Heather J. Kichner
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature -- v. 110
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781433115233; 9781453902288
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; War memorials; Death; English literature; History and criticism; Epitaphs in literature; History; Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Arriving at the cemetery; title: Grave concerns: novel responses to nineteenth-century cemetery reform; title: Of tomes and tombstones: altering people and plots; title: Cemeterial déjà vu: war writing and the new cemetery problem; title: Epilogue: absence, silence, anonymity and the changing role of the epitaph.