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Author:

Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954-

Title:

Literary remains : representation of death and burial in Victorian England / Mary Elizabeth Hotz.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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 (p. 199-209) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century

ISBN:

0791476596 (alk. paper)
9780791476598 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191697373

LCCN:

2008003240

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)