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2009

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Mary Elizabeth Hotz

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State University of New York Press

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06 février 2009

EAN13

9780791477243

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Literary Remains explores the unexpectedly central role of death and burial in Victorian England. As Alan Ball, creator of HBO's Six Feet Under, quipped, "Once you put a dead body in the room, you can talk about anything." So, too, with the Victorians: dead bodies, especially their burial and cremation, engaged the passionate attention of leading Victorians, from sanitary reformers like Edwin Chadwick to bestselling novelists like Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker. Locating corpses at the center of an extensive range of concerns, including money and law, medicine and urban architecture, social planning and folklore, religion and national identity, Mary Elizabeth Hotz draws on a range of legal, administrative, journalistic, and literary writing to offer a thoughtful meditation on Victorian attitudes toward death and burial, as well as how those attitudes influenced present-day deathway practices. Literary Remains gives new meaning to the phrase that serves as its significant theme: "Taught by death what life should be."
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Disinterring Death

1. Down among the Dead: Edwin Chadwick’s Burial Reform Discourse in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

2. “Taught by Death What Life Should Be”: Representations of Death in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and North and South

3. “To Profit Us When He Was Dead”: Dead-Body Politics in Our Mutual Friend

4. Death Eclipsed: The Contested Churchyard in Thomas Hardy’s Novels

5. “The Tonic of Fire”: Cremation in Late Victorian England

Conclusion: Dracula’s Last Word

Epilogue: The Traffic in Bodies

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

06 février 2009

EAN13

9780791477243

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

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Literary Remains

SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Pamela K. Gilbert, editor

Literary Remains Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England

Mary Elizabeth Hotz

State University of New York Press

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Hotz, Mary Elizabeth, 1954– Literary remains : representations of death and burial in Victorian England / Mary Elizabeth Hotz. p. cm. — (Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780791476598 (alk. paper) 1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Death in literature. 3. Dead in literature. 4. Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. 5. Burial laws— Great Britain. I. Title. PR878.D37H68 2009 823'.8093548 — dc22 2008003240

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For Helen V. McHugh

In Memoriam Daniel McKim Hotz (1966–1989) William Joseph Hotz (1917–1992) Ellen McKim Wallace (1938–1995)

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Contents

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 BartonandNorth and South “To Profit Us When He Was Dead”: DeadBody Politics inOur Mutual Friend Death Eclipsed: The Contested Churchyard in Thomas Hardy’s Novels

“The Tonic of Fire”: Victorian England

Conclusion:Dracula’s Last Word Epilogue: The Traffic in Bodies Notes Bibliography Index

Cremation in Late

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