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Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Deborah Lutz
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 a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107077447
ISBN-10: 1107077443
Publication Date: 1/31/2015
Pages: 260
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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