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Cash, conscience, corpse: The culture of death in the Victorian novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cash, conscience, corpse: The culture of death in the Victorian novel./
Author:	Ragland, Harvey E.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	74 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-04(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1587075
ISBN:	9781321702576

Cash, conscience, corpse: The culture of death in the Victorian novel.
Ragland, Harvey E.

Cash, conscience, corpse: The culture of death in the Victorian novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 74 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04.

Thesis (M.A.E.)--The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2015.

This thesis discusses Victorian notions of respectability at death and burial as they are portrayed in Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Middlemarch , and The Nether World. Because such notions are, by nature, fluid in that the death of an individual is spread across a canvas of public ritual, the novel provides a better way than newspaper accounts or diaries to bring together divergent and competing perspectives to form a more complete account of respectability's meaning for Victorians. Each of the four novels takes a different position on the idea of the respectable death and customs associated with it. From the beginning of the Victorian period, the ideal death meant facing with bravery and courage while putting one's spiritual affairs in order and leaving behind a written will that gave a final accounting of the deceased's financial obligations and provided for loved ones' economic security. A decent funeral and burial, which, at minimum, included interment in a private grave, was the accepted social marker indicating that the deceased's death was indeed respectable. In later years economic success became relatively less important as a determinant of respectability at death.

ISBN: 9781321702576Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Cash, conscience, corpse: The culture of death in the Victorian novel.
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