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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

Marche Funèbre

58 Frederic Chopin's March popularly played at funerals (even at his own). I've included Chopin's popular funeral march not just because of its iconic status within our own cultural moment, but because we can see the influence of popular entertainment, like musical compositions, being employed by mourners. I argue that the repurposing of Chopin's funeral march signals another moment where the cultural norms surrounding death are taken to display fashionable cultural materials. I've included Chopin's popular funeral march not just because of its iconic status within our own cultural moment, but because we can see the influence of popular entertainment, like musical compositions, being employed by mourners. I argue that the repurposing of Chopin's funeral march signals another moment where the cultural norms surrounding death are taken to display fashionable cultural materials.

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1. Mourning Dresses
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3. Clips from Fashion Adverts
4. Sudden Mourning
5. Marche Funèbre Frederic Chopin's March popularly played at funerals (even at his own). I've included Chopin's popular funeral march not just because of its iconic status within our own cultural moment, but because we can see the influence of popular entertainment, like musical compositions, being employed by mourners. I argue that the repurposing of Chopin's funeral march signals another moment where the cultural norms surrounding death are taken to display fashionable cultural materials. I've included Chopin's popular funeral march not just because of its iconic status within our own cultural moment, but because we can see the influence of popular entertainment, like musical compositions, being employed by mourners. I argue that the repurposing of Chopin's funeral march signals another moment where the cultural norms surrounding death are taken to display fashionable cultural materials.
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1. Marche Funèbre Frederic Chopin's March popularly played at funerals (even at his own). I've included Chopin's popular funeral march not just because of its iconic status within our own cultural moment, but because we can see the influence of popular entertainment, like musical compositions, being employed by mourners. I argue that the repurposing of Chopin's funeral march signals another moment where the cultural norms surrounding death are taken to display fashionable cultural materials. I've included Chopin's popular funeral march not just because of its iconic status within our own cultural moment, but because we can see the influence of popular entertainment, like musical compositions, being employed by mourners. I argue that the repurposing of Chopin's funeral march signals another moment where the cultural norms surrounding death are taken to display fashionable cultural materials.