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Book Literary Remains

Download or read book Literary Remains written by Mary Elizabeth Hotz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing. Literary Remains explores the unexpectedly central role of death and burial in Victorian England. As Alan Ball, creator of HBO’s Six Feet Under, quipped, “Once you put a dead body in the room, you can talk about anything.” So, too, with the Victorians: dead bodies, especially their burial and cremation, engaged the passionate attention of leading Victorians, from sanitary reformers like Edwin Chadwick to bestselling novelists like Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker. Locating corpses at the center of an extensive range of concerns, including money and law, medicine and urban architecture, social planning and folklore, religion and national identity, Mary Elizabeth Hotz draws on a range of legal, administrative, journalistic, and literary writing to offer a thoughtful meditation on Victorian attitudes toward death and burial, as well as how those attitudes influenced present-day deathway practices. Literary Remains gives new meaning to the phrase that serves as its significant theme: “Taught by death what life should be.” “...Literary Remains is a fantastic literary companion and is worth reading even if you’re not initially interested in burial practices.” — M/C Reviews “ Hotz not only contextualizes her readings within a historical framework surrounding the passage of the Burial Acts, the building of large public cemeteries in the suburbs, and the late-century introduction of cremation as a widespread social practice, but offers a perceptive and compelling rhetorical analysis of the sociological, political, and theological discourse about burial.” — Victorian Studies “ the painstaking research on debates about funerary reform that Hotz brings together will be valuable for future investigations of death in Victorian culture.” — Studies in English Literature “This is an ambitious, energetic and rigorous attempt to do that very difficult thing, integrate detailed and historically informed analysis of the documents of nineteenth-century burial reform and of major literary texts into a lucid and complex argument that doesn’t fight shy of contradiction and difficulty.” — Mortality “Drawing on a vast range of primary sources—official documents, newspapers and periodicals, travel guides—and the work of anthropologists, historians, and the substantial engagements within literary studies dealing with representations of death and the dead, Hotz’s perceptive, engaging, and eloquent study will be welcomed by a range of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.” — CHOICE “I read this fascinating book with great pleasure. It makes a valuable contribution to the study of Victorian practices of death and burial and will be an essential supplement to existing studies of the culture of Victorian melancholy and bereavement.” — Joel Faflak, author of Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery

Book Literary Remains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Elizabeth Hotz
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2009-02-06
  • ISBN : 079147724X
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Literary Remains written by Mary Elizabeth Hotz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-02-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Remains explores the unexpectedly central role of death and burial in Victorian England. As Alan Ball, creator of HBO's Six Feet Under, quipped, "Once you put a dead body in the room, you can talk about anything." So, too, with the Victorians: dead bodies, especially their burial and cremation, engaged the passionate attention of leading Victorians, from sanitary reformers like Edwin Chadwick to bestselling novelists like Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker. Locating corpses at the center of an extensive range of concerns, including money and law, medicine and urban architecture, social planning and folklore, religion and national identity, Mary Elizabeth Hotz draws on a range of legal, administrative, journalistic, and literary writing to offer a thoughtful meditation on Victorian attitudes toward death and burial, as well as how those attitudes influenced present-day deathway practices. Literary Remains gives new meaning to the phrase that serves as its significant theme: "Taught by death what life should be."

Book Literary Remains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eileen J. Cheng
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2013-04-30
  • ISBN : 0824837800
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Literary Remains written by Eileen J. Cheng and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lu Xun (1881–1936), arguably twentieth-century China’s greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging conventional depictions, Eileen J. Cheng’s innovative readings capture Lu Xun’s disenchantment with modernity and his transformative engagements with traditional literary conventions in his “modern” experimental works. Lurking behind the ambiguity at the heart of his writings are larger questions on the effects of cultural exchange, accommodation, and transformation that Lu Xun grappled with as a writer: How can a culture estranged from its vanishing traditions come to terms with its past? How can a culture, severed from its roots and alienated from the foreign conventions it appropriates, conceptualize its own present and future? Literary Remains shows how Lu Xun’s own literary encounter with the modern involved a sustained engagement with the past. His creative writings—which imitate, adapt, and parody traditional literary conventions—represent and mirror the trauma of cultural disintegration, in content and in form. His contradictory, uncertain, and at times bizarrely incoherent narratives refuse to conform to conventional modes of meaning making or teleological notions of history, opening up imaginative possibilities for comprehending the past and present without necessarily reifying them. Behind Lu Xun’s “refusal to mourn,” that is, his insistence on keeping the past and the dead alive in writing, lies an ethical claim: to recover the redemptive meaning of loss. Like a solitary wanderer keeping vigil at the site of destruction, he sifts through the debris, composing epitaphs to mark both the presence and absence of that which has gone before and will soon come to pass. For in the rubble of what remains, he recovered precious gems of illumination through which to assess, critique, and transform the moment of the present. Literary Remains shows how Lu Xun’s literary enterprise is driven by a “radical hope”—that, in spite of the destruction he witnessed and the limits of representation, his writings, like the texts that inspired his own, might somehow capture glimmers of the past and the present, and illuminate a future yet to unfold. Literary Remains will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars interested in Lu Xun, modern China, cultural studies, and world literature.

Book John Keats   The Man Behind The Lyrics  Life  letters  and literary remains

Download or read book John Keats The Man Behind The Lyrics Life letters and literary remains written by John Keats and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains', readers are given an in-depth look into the life, works, and literary context of one of the most influential Romantic poets in English literature. This book delves into Keats' poetic style, exploring themes of beauty, love, and mortality in his iconic works such as 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn'. The author meticulously examines Keats' letters and literary remains, shedding light on the poet's personal struggles and creative process. The book also explores the influence of Romanticism on Keats' writing, as well as his impact on future generations of poets. Keats' lyrical and emotional writing style is praised for its depth and richness, making this book a must-read for poetry enthusiasts and literary scholars alike.

Book The Life  Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer  Lord Lytton

Download or read book The Life Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer Lord Lytton written by Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1883, this two-volume work sheds light on an author who was outsold only by Dickens in his lifetime.

Book Uncollected Literary Remains of William Dickinson  F L S  of Thorncroft  Workington

Download or read book Uncollected Literary Remains of William Dickinson F L S of Thorncroft Workington written by William Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Remains of Henry Fynes Clinton     Consisting of an autobiography and literary journal and brief essays on theological subjects  Edited by C  J  Fynes Clinton

Download or read book Literary Remains of Henry Fynes Clinton Consisting of an autobiography and literary journal and brief essays on theological subjects Edited by C J Fynes Clinton written by Henry Fynes CLINTON and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Remains

Download or read book Literary Remains written by Ray Russell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey

Download or read book The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey written by Lady Jane Grey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Download or read book The literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch

Download or read book Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James

Download or read book The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt

Download or read book Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

Book The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom

Download or read book The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom written by John Byrom and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch

Download or read book Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch written by Emanuel Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Remains of the Day

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  • Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2010-07-15
  • ISBN : 0307576183
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Remains of the Day written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Book Letters   Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald

Download or read book Letters Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald written by Edward FitzGerald and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: