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
12016-11-27T10:24:38+00:00Mourning in Erewhon7plain2016-12-11T15:04:31+00:00 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.