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
Half Mourning and Full Mourning
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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.