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
Use and Abuse of the Dead
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Making his third appearance within the anthology, Charles Dickens seems to be an example of a writer responding to the death fascination held by those during the Victorian era. Dickens's piece, published in the middle of the century (1858), responds to the growing concerning about the usage of bodies in medical science--especially when those bodies are sold, or stolen. Again we see a narrative that is critical of using the dead beyond the public-sanctioned mourning rites.