- Heather Kichner
Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun
Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the 19th Century through the Great War
English |
Hardback / bound |
9781433115233 |
2012 |
9 Pages
Considers rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from mid-nineteenth century through Great War. This book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to death and burial, including epitaph collections, and fictional representations of burial and epitaph writing, especially in novels of Charles Dickens.