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
Published in Hood's Magazine in 1844 this is a popular farce detailing the absurdity of preparing and becoming fashionable for Victorian funeral rites. Doing so, it becomes highly critical of the performance surrounding the dead, not for their expense, but rather that of the living. I bring our attention to this entry to show the satire that is actively anticipating our next section on mourning rites--the discomfort of some within the population at the objectification of the dead subjects for the sole purpose of public displays of grief.