Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture

Publication Data

• Title Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture
• Author Deborah Lutz
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Title taken from jacket cover. No title page in book.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: lyrical matter; 1. Infinite materiality: Keats, D. G. Rossetti and the Romantics; 2. The miracle of ordinary things: Bronte and Wuthering Heights; 3. The many faces of death masks: Dickens and Great Expectations; 4. The elegy as shrine: Tennyson and 'In Memoriam'; 5. Hair jewelry as congealed time: Hardy and Far from the Madding Crowd; Afterword: death as death; Bibliography.

Topics

• English literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Death in literature
• Relics in literature
• Literature and society :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century

Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture by Deborah Lutz. ISBN 9781107434394. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.