| Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun: Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the 19th Century through the Great War Contributor(s): Daemmrich, Horst (Other), Kichner, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433115239 ISBN-13: 9781433115233 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $90.73 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 2011047747 |
| Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to death and burial, including epitaph collections, burial reform documents, and fictional representations of burial and epitaph writing, especially in the novels of Charles Dickens. The second half studies the same discourse of burial, mourning, and epitaphs in select fiction, memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and poems produced in response to World War I in order to understand how writing about individual memorialization changed in post-war British literature and culture. |