Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.
Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.
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G 2016/594
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English
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xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: lyrical matter -- Infinite materiality: Keats, D.G. Rossetti and the Romantics -- The miracle of ordinary things: Brontë and Wuthering Heights -- The many faces of death masks: Dickens and Great Expectations -- The elegy as shrine: Tennyson and 'In Memoriam' -- Hair jewelry as congeal...
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New York (State)
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"Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with the body and death, a way of understanding absence through its materials, which is less widely felt today. Deborah Lutz analyzes relic culture as an...
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Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 96.
Title from jacket cover. No title page in book.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-227) and index.
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G 2016/594
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74VKzKaaqgbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzKaaqgbl
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ISBN
1107434394 (paperback)
9781107077447 (hardback)
1107077443 (hardback)
9781107434394 (paperback)
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820.93548
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991023405589702626
