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

 

  • Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.93548
    書名/作者: Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture/ Deborah Lutz.
    其他題名: Relics of Death in Victorian Literature & Culture
    作者: Lutz, Deborah.
    出版者: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2015.
    面頁冊數: xii, 244 p. : : digital ;; 24 cm.
    附註: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Death in literature.
    標題: Relics in literature.
    標題: Literature and society - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    ISBN: 9781139924887
    ISBN: 9781107077447
    ISBN: 9781107434394
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924887
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