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Author Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954-

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

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Death in literature.
Death in literature.
Dead in literature.
Dead in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
Burial laws -- Great Britain.
Burial laws.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954- Literary remains. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009 9780791476598 0791476596 (DLC) 2008003240 (OCoLC)191697373
ISBN 9781441604903 (electronic book)
1441604901 (electronic book)
0791476596 (alkaline paper)
9780791476598 (alkaline paper)
9780791477243