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245 10 a| Relics of death in Victorian literature and cultureh| [electronic resource] /c| Deborah Lutz.;

260 a| New York :b| Cambridge University Press,c| 2015.;

300 a| xii, 244 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

490 0 a| Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ;v| 96;

500 a| Title taken from jacket cover. No title page in book.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-227) and index.;

505 8 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / Deborah Lutz.

Author/creator	Lutz, Deborah
Other author	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description	xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subjects	English literature--19th century. --History and criticism. Death in literature. Relics in literature. Literature and society--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.

Series	Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 96
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.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	Title taken from jacket cover. No title page in book.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-227) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014032221
ISBN	9781107077447 (hardback)
ISBN	9781107434394 (paperback)

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