國立虎尾科技大學 |

Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture // Deborah Lutz.
remainder title:	Relics of Death in Victorian Literature & Culture
Author:	Lutz, Deborah,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Literature and society - History - 19th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924887
ISBN:	9781139924887 (ebook)

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

Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture /Relics of Death in Victorian Literature & CultureDeborah Lutz. - 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;96. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781139924887 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

568705
Literature and society
--History--Great Britain--19th century.

LC Class. No.: PR468.D42 / L88 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3548

Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture /
LDR:02497nam a2200337 i 4500 001 1122556
003 UkCbUP
005 20151005020621.0
006 m|||||o||d||||||||
007 cr||||||||||||
008 240926s2015||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d
020 $a 9781139924887 (ebook)
020 $z 9781107077447 (hardback)
020 $z 9781107434394 (paperback)
035 $a CR9781139924887
040 $a UkCbUP $b eng $e rda $c UkCbUP
043 $a e-uk---
050 0 0 $a PR468.D42 $b L88 2015
082 0 0 $a 820.9/3548 $2 23
100 1 $a Lutz, Deborah, $e author. $3 1438843
245 1 0 $a Relics of death in Victorian literature and culture / $c Deborah Lutz.
246 3 $a Relics of Death in Victorian Literature & Culture
264 1 $a Cambridge : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2015.
300 $a 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : $b digital, PDF file(s).
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
490 1 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 96
500 $a Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 $a 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.
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 Brontë, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and others, this study illuminates the treasuring of objects that had belonged to or touched the dead.
650 0 $a Literature and society $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. $3 568705
650 0 $a Relics in literature. $3 1294303
650 0 $a Death in literature. $3 560558
650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. $3 560374
776 0 8 $i Print version: $z 9781107077447
830 0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 80. $3 1133954
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924887