MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01506nam a22003018a 4500
001 2008003240
003 DLC
005 20080128160109.0
008 080128s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008003240
020 $a9780791476598 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR878.D37$bH68 2009
082 00 $a823/.8093548$222
100 1 $aHotz, Mary Elizabeth,$d1954-
245 10 $aLiterary remains :$brepresentation of death and burial in Victorian England /$cMary Elizabeth Hotz.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0901
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aSuny series, studies in the long nineteenth century
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : disinterring death -- Down among the dead : Edwin Chadwick and 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.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDeath in literature.
650 0 $aDead in literature.
650 0 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies in literature.
650 0 $aBurial laws$zGreat Britain.