Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture /

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Author / Creator:	Lutz, Deborah, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Subject:	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Death in literature. Relics in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Death in literature. English literature. Literature and society. Relics in literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12348560

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ISBN:	9781316248287 1316248283 9781139924887 1139924885 9781316252062 131625206X 9781107077447
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 6, 2015).
Summary:	"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 affirmation that objects held memories and told stories. These practices show a belief in keeping death vitally intertwined with life - not as memento mori but rather as respecting the singularity of unique beings. In a consumer culture in full swing by the 1850s, keepsakes of loved ones stood out as non-reproducible, authentic things whose value was purely personal. Through close reading of the works of Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and others, this study illuminates the treasuring of objects that had belonged to or touched the dead"--
Other form:	Print version: Lutz, Deborah. Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture 9781107077447

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