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

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) Series Suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Death in literature. Dead in literature. Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. Burial laws -- Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Burial laws Dead in literature Death in literature English fiction Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441604903 1441604901

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