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Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.