Deborah Lutz

Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781107434394
• ISBN-10: 1107434394
• Artikelnr.: 48095722

Autorenporträt

Deborah Lutz is an Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus. She is the author of Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism (2011) and The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: lyrical matter
1. Infinite materiality: Keats, D. G. Rossetti and the Romantics
2. The miracle of ordinary things: Brontë 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.