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
Written for The Penny Magazine in 1842, this excerpt from a larger study concerning public health in English homes allows us to see not only the importance of cleanliness of public homes, but also the stigma given to those that are affected by social problems like poverty. There is no connection here between the social systems that allow these habitations to exist and the overall health of the state. Striking here is the narrative voice being the intruding force into these habitations--here the owners are given no voice, merely a passing glance by the narrator.