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
12016-12-13T15:24:46+00:00The Coming Race--Funeral and Time1plain2016-12-13T15:24:46+00:00 Lytton's 1871 utopic text seems to respond to Victoria's exuberant mourning period. Here the death is celebrated through the brief remembrance of the deceased member of the community. Rather than overt mourning, there is a brief ceremony, the body is cremated, and the mourners immediately return to daily life without being burdened by public mourning. I use Lytton to set a counter-narrative to the royal mourning paradigm.