E-book
Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England
Record details
- ISBN: 1441604901
- ISBN: 9781441604903
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 217 pages)
remote - Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Death in literature Dead in literature Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature Burial laws -- Great Britain |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
