Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

Mourning in Erewhon

58 Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section

We return again to Butler's 1872 novel, Erewhon, to see the harsh social critique the utopian author presents us. Here we are given the overview of death rites within Erewhonian society. Pay particular attention to the manufacturing of grief, the trading of vials of fake tears between mourners and how this might also inform the spectacle of mourning within Victorian society from the listed primary documents. 

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