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Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had
once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which
included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with
the body and death, a way of understanding absence through its
materials, which is less widely felt today. Deborah Lutz analyzes
relic culture as an affirmation that objects held memories and told
stories. These practices show a belief in keeping death vitally
intertwined with life - not as memento mori but rather as
respecting the singularity of unique beings. In a consumer culture
in full swing by the 1850s, keepsakes of loved ones stood out as
non-reproducible, authentic things whose value was purely personal.
Through close reading of the works of Charles Dickens, Emily
Bronte, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and others, this study
illuminates the treasuring of objects that had belonged to or
touched the dead.
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