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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

Half Mourning and Full Mourning

Grym's satirical piece builds off our last section and presents the absurdly regulated distinctions between half and full mourning practices. Here this reading (and those that follow) allow us to see the dissension in the ranks of popular death culture displayed and maintained by the Victorians.

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Modern Mournings Kyle Brett
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Newspapers and Magazines Kyle Brett
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1. Clips from Fashion Adverts
2. The Queen and Prince Albert
3. Official Instructions for Cholera
4. Noxious Effects of Improper Habitations
5. A Healthy Skin
6. Notabilia--Albert's Death
7. Price of a Grave
8. Supply of Anatomical Subjects
9. Use and Abuse of the Dead
10. Anatomical Dissections
11. The Sanctity of the Dead
12. Experiences of a Surgeon
13. Medical Facts and Opinions
14. The House of Mourning
15. Appropriating Dead Bodies
16. Half Mourning and Full Mourning
17. Sudden Mourning
18. On the Practice of Body Snatching
19. Public Health in London
20. Curious Letter
21. Cures by Yeast
22. The Electrical Cure for Cancer
23. Corn Plaster
24. Pill Man
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