The Resource Dickens and the business of death, Claire Wood, (electronic book)
Dickens and the business of death, Claire Wood, (electronic book)
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The item Dickens and the business of death, Claire Wood, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Dickens and the business of death, Claire Wood, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Contents
-
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Profitable undertakings and deathly business; 2. Revaluing The Old Curiosity Shop; 3. Death and property in Bleak House; 4. Parts and parting in Our Mutual Friend; Conclusion. Stealing Dickens; Bibliography
- Isbn
- 9781316248782
- Label
- Dickens and the business of death
- Title
- Dickens and the business of death
- Statement of responsibility
- Claire Wood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NhCcYBP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1984-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wood, Claire
- Dewey number
- 823/.8
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR4592.E25
- LC item number
- W66 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
- Series volume
- 98
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Death in literature
- Death care industry
- Literature publishing
- Literature and society
- Dickens, Charles
- Label
- Dickens and the business of death, Claire Wood, (electronic book)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Profitable undertakings and deathly business; 2. Revaluing The Old Curiosity Shop; 3. Death and property in Bleak House; 4. Parts and parting in Our Mutual Friend; Conclusion. Stealing Dickens; Bibliography
- Control code
- 99979546055
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781316248782
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Dickens and the business of death, Claire Wood, (electronic book)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Profitable undertakings and deathly business; 2. Revaluing The Old Curiosity Shop; 3. Death and property in Bleak House; 4. Parts and parting in Our Mutual Friend; Conclusion. Stealing Dickens; Bibliography
- Control code
- 99979546055
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781316248782
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Death in literature
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge | Economics
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 19th century
- 1800 - 1899
- Death care industry -- England -- History -- 19th century
Member of
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 98
- Online access with purchase: Cambridge Books Online
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