Relics of death in Victorian literat...
Lutz, Deborah.

 

  • Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture[electronic resource] /
  • 纪录类型: 书目-电子资源 : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414] null: 820.93548
    [NT 47271] Title/Author: Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture/ Deborah Lutz.
    [NT 51403] remainder title: Relics of Death in Victorian Literature & Culture
    作者: Lutz, Deborah.
    出版者: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2015.
    面页册数: xii, 244 p. : : digital ;; 24 cm.
    附注: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    标题: English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century
    标题: Death in literature.
    标题: Relics in literature.
    标题: Literature and society - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    ISBN: 9781139924887
    ISBN: 9781107077447
    ISBN: 9781107434394
    [NT 15000228] null: 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 congealed time: Hardy and Far from the Madding Crowd -- Afterword: death as death.
    [NT 15000229] null: 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 Brontë, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and others, this study illuminates the treasuring of objects that had belonged to or touched the dead.
    电子资源: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924887
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