Dickens And The Business Of Death

Author : Claire Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107098637
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Business of Death written by Claire Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens's fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.

Author : Claire Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316241211
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Business of Death written by Claire Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations.

Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504380
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touché written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192862669
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickens, Death, and Christmas written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? Robert L. Patten weaves together Dickens's life, career, writings, journalism, travel, theatrical presentations, and religious convictions to offer a richly designed and entertaining narrative, fulsomely illustrated, of the manifold ways Dickensfigures the spirit and traditions of the winter holidays in Victorian England.

Author : Heather Redmond
Publisher : Dickens of a Crime
ISBN 13 : 1496720490
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Carol Murder written by Heather Redmond and published by Dickens of a Crime. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The latest novel from Heather Redmond’s acclaimed mystery series finds young Charles Dickens suspecting a miser of pushing his partner out a window, but his fiancée Kate Hogarth takes a more charitable view of the old man's innocence . . ." --

Author : Deborah Lutz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077443
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Deborah Lutz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191061123
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZV/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watched by the Dead written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.AN/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dombey and Son written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: