Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the DeadMain MenuFleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public HealthFirst SectionDying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and MourningSecond SectionWearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of DeathThird SectionUp and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-SnatchingFourth SectionWeird Science: Anatomical Use of the DeadFifth SectionWorks Cited/Full-Texts/Further ReadingsKyle Brett425ed005fc457ac8e436783036f285b42b192fb4
Deceased People Whom We Meet Daily
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This is a satirical piece, published in the New Monthly Magazine and Humorist in 1844, that comments on the social way Victorians have already met the dead in their daily tasks and labor. Particularly, this piece pokes at the spectacle of death for individuals who are already dead and not for those that are dying from social ills. Drawing out attention away from the living and turning our attention to the fact all will die, this piece responds to the sanctity-of-the-dead narrative carried through the body-snatching heyday.