Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

Deborah Lutz

earliest edition we have, 2014 Cambridge University Press, 2015 260 pages

"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 practic...

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Editions we hold

Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2017 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 261 pages · 9781107434394
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139924887
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 260 pages · 9781107077447
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 9781316250174
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 9781316252062
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2015 · Cambridge University Press · 264 pages · 9781322561097
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture edition · 2014 · Cambridge University Press · 9781316236932

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