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Author:

Zigarovich, Jolene, 1970- author.

Title:

Death and the body in the eighteenth-century novel / Jolene Zigarovich.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xi, 261 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Mourning customs--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Death in literature.
Dead in literature.
Human body in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Relics in literature.
Dead in literature.
Death in literature.
English fiction.
Human body in literature.
Mourning customs.
Mourning customs in literature.
Relics in literature.
Great Britain.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 5 Osseous Matter: Bones, Relics, and Mourning Miniatures. ch. 2 Preserving Clarissa: Eighteenth-Century Embalming Practices -- ch. 3 Waxen Encounters: Flesh, Anatomy, and Autonomy -- ch. 4 Circulating Bodies: Secular Mementos, Jewelry, and Hairwork -- ch. 5 Osseous Matter: Bones, Relics, and Mourning Miniatures.

Summary:

"Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. By drawing on a variety of historical discourses-such as wills, undertaking histories, medical treatises and textbooks, anatomical studies, philosophical treatises, and religious tracts and sermons-this study contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation. As of yet, no single study has collected copious material and literary examples of death and mourning in the period"-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9781512823776
1512823775

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1304815852

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)